Bayesian non-parametric models for spatially indexed data of mixed type

DOI10.1111/RSSB.12097zbMATH Open1414.62175arXiv1408.1368OpenAlexW2159732703WikidataQ60372940 ScholiaQ60372940MaRDI QIDQ5378144FDOQ5378144

Authors: Georgios Papageorgiou, Sylvia Richardson, Nicky Best 

Publication date: 12 June 2019

Published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We develop Bayesian nonparametric models for spatially indexed data of mixed type. Our work is motivated by challenges that occur in environmental epidemiology, where the usual presence of several confounding variables that exhibit complex interactions and high correlations makes it difficult to estimate and understand the effects of risk factors on health outcomes of interest. The modeling approach we adopt assumes that responses and confounding variables are manifestations of continuous latent variables, and uses multivariate Gaussians to jointly model these. Responses and confounding variables are not treated equally as relevant parameters of the distributions of the responses only are modeled in terms of explanatory variables or risk factors. Spatial dependence is introduced by allowing the weights of the nonparametric process priors to be location specific, obtained as probit transformations of Gaussian Markov random fields. Confounding variables and spatial configuration have a similar role in the model, in that they only influence, along with the responses, the allocation probabilities of the areas into the mixture components, thereby allowing for flexible adjustment of the effects of observed confounders, while allowing for the possibility of residual spatial structure, possibly occurring due to unmeasured or undiscovered spatially varying factors. Aspects of the model are illustrated in simulation studies and an application to a real data set.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.1368

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zbMATH Keywords

spatial dependencelatent variablesmultiple responsesmultiple confoundersprobit stick breaking process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Nonparametric regression and quantile regression (62G08) Directional data; spatial statistics (62H11) Applications of statistics to environmental and related topics (62P12)

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