A Dependent Polya Tree Model: Bayesian Nonparametric Survival Regression

A Dependent Polya Tree Model: Bayesian Nonparametric Survival Regression

Neyman Seminar
Feb 10, 2010, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Peter Müller, Department of Biostatistics, Division of Quantitative Sciences, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX (Speaker)
We propose a probability model for a family of unknown distributions indexed with covariates. The marginal model for each distribution is a Polya tree prior. The proposed model introduces the desired dependence across the marginal Polya tree models by defining dependent random branching probabilities of the unknown distributions. The dependence is on the corresponding...