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Dirichlet process mixtures of block $g$ priors for model selection and prediction in linear models (2411.00471v1)

Published 1 Nov 2024 in stat.ME and cs.LG

Abstract: This paper introduces Dirichlet process mixtures of block $g$ priors for model selection and prediction in linear models. These priors are extensions of traditional mixtures of $g$ priors that allow for differential shrinkage for various (data-selected) blocks of parameters while fully accounting for the predictors' correlation structure, providing a bridge between the literatures on model selection and continuous shrinkage priors. We show that Dirichlet process mixtures of block $g$ priors are consistent in various senses and, in particular, that they avoid the conditional Lindley ``paradox'' highlighted by Som et al.(2016). Further, we develop a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm for posterior inference that requires only minimal ad-hoc tuning. Finally, we investigate the empirical performance of the prior in various real and simulated datasets. In the presence of a small number of very large effects, Dirichlet process mixtures of block $g$ priors lead to higher power for detecting smaller but significant effects without only a minimal increase in the number of false discoveries.

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