Spring Seminar Series March 29, 2007
(Joint Seminar with Carlson School of Management)
University of Minnesota
School of Statistics
College of Liberal Arts
Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling for Integrating
Low-accuracy and High-accuracy Experiments
Jeff
Wu
School
of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Thursday,
March 29, 2007
3:30 PM, 115
Ford Hall
Minneapolis, East Bank Campus
Social at 3:00 PM, 300 Ford Hall
Abstract
Standard practice
in analyzing data from different types of experiments is to treat data
from
each type separately. By borrowing
strength across multiple sources, an integrated analysis can produce
better
results. Careful adjustments need to be made to incorporate the
systematic
differences among various experiments. To this end, some Bayesian
hierarchical
Gaussian process models (BHGP) are proposed. The heterogeneity among
different
sources is accounted for by performing flexible location and scale
adjustments.
The approach tends to produce prediction closer to that from the
high-accuracy
experiment. The Bayesian computations are aided by the use of Markov
chain