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Spatial Bayesian Nonparametric Methods
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Spatial Bayesian Nonparametric Methods

Brian James Reich and Montserrat Fuentes
Nonparametric Bayesian Inference in Biostatistics, pp.347-357
Frontiers in Probability and the Statistical Sciences, Springer International Publishing
01/01/2015
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-19518-6_17

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Abstract

We review nonparametric Bayesian approaches to inference for spatial data. The discussion is organized by increasing level of relaxation of traditional parametric assumptions. We start by considering nonparametric priors for covariance functions in a Gaussian process model. Next we allow for non-Gaussian marginal distributions by introducing Gaussian copulas. Finally, we go fully non-parametric and discuss Dirichlet process mixtures for the coefficients in a kernel convolution, Dirichlet process mixtures of Gaussian processes and spatial stick-breaking priors.
Dirichlet Process Gaussian Process Quantile Function Marginal Distribution Covariance Function

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