2 papers
stat.ME2018
Horseshoe-based Bayesian nonparametric estimation of effective population size trajectories
James R. Faulkner, Andrew F. Magee, Beth Shapiro +1
Phylodynamics is an area of population genetics that uses genetic sequence data to estimate past population dynamics. Modern state-of-the-art Bayesian nonparametric methods for rec…
stat.ME2015
Locally adaptive smoothing with Markov random fields and shrinkage priors
James R. Faulkner, Vladimir N. Minin
We present a locally adaptive nonparametric curve fitting method that operates within a fully Bayesian framework. This method uses shrinkage priors to induce sparsity in order-k di…