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most citedA Nonparametric Bayesian Approach to Copula Estimation

1 citations · 1 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

stat.AP2022

COVID-19 and Influenza Joint Forecasts Using Internet Search Information in the United States

Simin Ma, Shaoyang Ning, Shihao Yang

As COVID-19 pandemic progresses, severe flu seasons may happen alongside an increase in cases in cases and death of COVID-19, causing severe burdens on health care resources and pu…

stat.AP2020

Forecasting unemployment using Internet search data via PRISM

Dingdong Yi, Shaoyang Ning, Chia-Jung Chang +1

Big data generated from the Internet offer great potential for predictive analysis. Here we focus on using online users' Internet search data to forecast unemployment initial claim…

stat.AP2020

Use Internet Search Data to Accurately Track State-Level Influenza Epidemics

Shihao Yang, Shaoyang Ning, S. C. Kou

For epidemics control and prevention, timely insights of potential hot spots are invaluable. Alternative to traditional epidemic surveillance, which often lags behind real time by…

cs.IR2018

Clust-LDA: Joint Model for Text Mining and Author Group Inference

Shaoyang Ning, Xi Qu, Victor Cai +1

Social media corpora pose unique challenges and opportunities, including typically short document lengths and rich meta-data such as author characteristics and relationships. This…

stat.AP2018

Bayesian Hidden Markov Tree Models for Clustering Genes with Shared Evolutionary History

Yang Li, Shaoyang Ning, Sarah E. Calvo +2

Determination of functions for poorly characterized genes is crucial for understanding biological processes and studying human diseases. Functionally associated genes are often gai…

stat.ME20171 cited

A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach to Copula Estimation

Shaoyang Ning, Neil Shephard

We propose a novel Dirichlet-based Pólya tree (D-P tree) prior on the copula and based on the D-P tree prior, a nonparametric Bayesian inference procedure. Through theoretical anal…