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20172026
most citedBeing Bayesian in the 2020s: opportunities and challenges in the practice of modern applied Bayesian statistics

18 citations · 33 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

stat.ME2026

Flexible Transformations for Bayesian Score Calibration

Adam Bretherton, Joshua J. Bon, David J. Warne +2

Modern statistical models are growing increasingly complex in an effort to realistically capture system dynamics. Using standard simulation-based inference, these models may be com…

stat.CO2025

Knots and variance ordering of sequential Monte Carlo algorithms

Joshua J Bon, Anthony Lee

Sequential Monte Carlo algorithms, or particle filters, are widely used for approximating intractable integrals, particularly those arising in Bayesian inference and state-space mo…

stat.ME2025

A Principled Approach to Bayesian Transfer Learning

Adam Bretherton, Joshua J. Bon, David J. Warne +2

Updating information given some observed data is the core tenet of Bayesian inference. Bayesian transfer learning extends this idea by incorporating information…

stat.ML2024

Federated Learning for Non-factorizable Models using Deep Generative Prior Approximations

Conor Hassan, Joshua J Bon, Elizaveta Semenova +2

Federated learning (FL) allows for collaborative model training across decentralized clients while preserving privacy by avoiding data sharing. However, current FL methods assume c…

stat.AP2022★ 18 cited

Being Bayesian in the 2020s: opportunities and challenges in the practice of modern applied Bayesian statistics

Joshua J. Bon, Adam Bretherton, Katie Buchhorn +12

Building on a strong foundation of philosophy, theory, methods and computation over the past three decades, Bayesian approaches are now an integral part of the toolkit for most sta…

stat.CO2022★ 2 cited

Bayesian score calibration for approximate models

Joshua J Bon, David J Warne, David J Nott +1

Scientists continue to develop increasingly complex mechanistic models to reflect their knowledge more realistically. Statistical inference using these models can be challenging si…

stat.ME2022★ 1 cited

Monte Carlo twisting for particle filters

Joshua J Bon, Christopher Drovandi, Anthony Lee

We consider the problem of designing efficient particle filters for twisted Feynman--Kac models. Particle filters using twisted models can deliver low error approximations of stati…

stat.CO2020★ 4 cited

Accelerating sequential Monte Carlo with surrogate likelihoods

Joshua J Bon, Anthony Lee, Christopher Drovandi

Delayed-acceptance is a technique for reducing computational effort for Bayesian models with expensive likelihoods. Using a delayed-acceptance kernel for Markov chain Monte Carlo c…

stat.AP2017★ 8 cited

Polling bias and undecided voter allocations: US Presidential elections, 2004 - 2016

Joshua J Bon, Timothy Ballard, Bernard Baffour

Accounting for undecided and uncertain voters is a challenging issue for predicting election results from public opinion polls. Undecided voters typify the uncertainty of swing vot…