Embedding black-box regression techniques into hierarchical Bayesian models

DOI10.1080/00949655.2011.594052zbMath1431.62170MaRDI QIDQ4925453

Daniel Fink, Benjamin A. Shaby

Publication date: 12 June 2013

Published in: Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00949655.2011.594052

zbMATH Keywords

hierarchical Bayesian; Markov chain Monte Carlo; data mining; machine learning

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62-08: Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics

62G08: Nonparametric regression and quantile regression

62P10: Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis

62F15: Bayesian inference

68T05: Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence

Uses Software

• rpart
• gbm

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