10 September 17

10.1 Announcements

  • No new announcements

10.2 Extreme precipitation in Kansas

  • What we will need to learn
    • How to use R as a geographic information system
    • New general tools from statistics
      • Gaussian process
      • Metropolis and Metropolis–Hastings algorithms
      • Gibbs sampler
    • How to use the hierarchical modeling framework to describe Kriging
      • Hierarchical Bayesian model vs. “empirical” hierarchical model
    • Specialized language used in spatial statistics (e.g., range, nugget, variogram)

10.3 Gibbs sampler

  • History
    • Stochastic Relaxation, Gibbs Distributions, and the Bayesian Restoration of Images (Geman and Geman 1984))
    • Sampling-Based Approaches to Calculating Marginal Densities (Gelfand and Smith 1990)
    • The gibbs sampler is responsible for the recent “Bayesian revolution”
  • Gibbs sampler
    • See pg. 169 in book.
    • In many cases the distribution we want to sample from is multivariate
    • If we can sample from the univariate full-conditional distribution for each random variable of a multivariate distribution, then we can use a Gibbs sampler to obtain dependent sample from the multivariate distribution

10.3.1 Gibbs sampler: simple example

\boldsymbol{\theta}\sim\text{N}\Bigg(\mathbf{0},\bigg[\begin{array}{cc} 1 & \rho\\ \rho\ & 1 \end{array}\bigg]\Bigg) where \boldsymbol{\theta}\equiv(\theta_{1},\theta_{2})'. Suppose we didn’t know how to sample from the multivariate normal distribution, but we could obtain the conditional distributions [\theta_{1}|\theta_{2}] and [\theta_{2}|\theta_{1}] which are \theta_{1}|\theta_{2}\sim\text{N}(\rho\theta_{2},1-\rho^{2}) \theta_{2}|\theta_{1}\sim\text{N}(\rho\theta_{1},1-\rho^{2})\,. It turns out that if we iteratively sample from [\theta_{1}|\theta_{2}] and then [\theta_{2}|\theta_{1}] (or the other way around) we will obtain samples from [\boldsymbol{\theta}].

10.3.2 Gibbs sampler: Bayesian linear model example