Research Interests for David B. Dunson
Research Interests: Nonparametric Bayes, Latent variable methods, Model uncertainty, Applications in epidemiology & genetics, Machine learning
Development of Bayesian methods motivated by applications with complex and high-dimensional data.
A particular focus is on nonparametric Bayes approaches for conditional distributions and for flexible borrowing of information. I am also interested in methods for accommodating model uncertainty in hierarchical models, and in latent variable methods, including structural equation models. A recent interest has been in functional data analysis.
- Keywords:
- Action Potentials, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, B-Lymphocytes, Bayes Theorem, Computer Simulation, Data Interpretation, Statistical, DNA-Binding Proteins, Electrophysiological Phenomena, Epidemiologic Methods, Gene Dosage, Genetic Association Studies, Germinal Center, Longitudinal Studies, Markov Chains, Models, Statistical, Models, Theoretical, Monte Carlo Method, Multivariate Analysis, Neurons, Pattern Recognition, Automated, Phenotype, Probability, Stochastic differential equations
- Current projects:
- Nonparametric Bayes methods for conditional distributions
- Semiparametric methods for high-dimensional predictors
- New priors for functional data analysis
- Borrowing information across disparate data sources
- Methods for identifying gene x environmental interactions
- Areas of Interest:
- Functional data analysis
Genetics
Latent variable methods
Machine learning
Molecular epidemiology
Nonparametric Bayes
Order restricted inference
Model selection and averaging
- Representative Publications
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- Dunson, DB, Nonparametric Bayes local partition models for random effects.,
Biometrika, vol. 96 no. 2
(January, 2009),
pp. 249-262, ISSN 0006-3444 [doi] [abs]
- Bigelow, JL; Dunson, DB, Bayesian semiparametric joint models for functional predictors.,
Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol. 104 no. 485
(January, 2009),
pp. 26-36, Informa UK Limited, ISSN 0162-1459 [doi] [abs]
- Dunson, DB; Xing, C, Nonparametric Bayes Modeling of Multivariate Categorical Data.,
Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol. 104 no. 487
(January, 2012),
pp. 1042-1051, ISSN 0162-1459 [doi] [abs]
- Dunson, DB; Park, JH, Kernel stick-breaking processes,
Biometrika, vol. 95 no. 2
(June, 2008),
pp. 307-323, Oxford University Press (OUP), ISSN 0006-3444 [doi] [abs]
- Dunson, DB; Herring, AH; Engel, SM, Bayesian selection and clustering of polymorphisms in functionally related genes,
Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol. 103 no. 482
(June, 2008),
pp. 534-546, Informa UK Limited, ISSN 0162-1459 [doi] [abs]