Scalable Bayesian nonparametric regression via a Plackett-Luce model for conditional ranks

DOI10.1214/15-EJS1032zbMATH Open1397.62148arXiv1506.07412OpenAlexW2963270765WikidataQ55025235 ScholiaQ55025235MaRDI QIDQ309544FDOQ309544

Tristan Gray-Davies, Chris Holmes, Francois Caron

Publication date: 7 September 2016

Published in: Electronic Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a novel Bayesian nonparametric regression model for covariates X and continuous, real response variable Y. The model is parametrized in terms of marginal distributions for Y and X and a regression function which tunes the stochastic ordering of the conditional distributions F(y|x). By adopting an approximate composite likelihood approach, we show that the resulting posterior inference can be decoupled for the separate components of the model. This procedure can scale to very large datasets and allows for the use of standard, existing, software from Bayesian nonparametric density estimation and Plackett-Luce ranking estimation to be applied. As an illustration, we show an application of our approach to a US Census dataset, with over 1,300,000 data points and more than 100 covariates.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.07412

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian nonparametricscomposite likelihoodDirichlet process mixtures[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=P%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDlya+tree&go=Go P��lya tree]Plackett-Luce

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric regression and quantile regression (62G08) Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Applications of statistics to social sciences (62P25)

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Cited In (2)

• Bayesian analysis of rank data with covariates and heterogeneous rankers
• Bayesian Approximate Kernel Regression With Variable Selection

Uses Software

• bfa
• BayesTree
• DPpackage
• BartPy

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