Smoothness Properties and Gradient Analysis Under Spatial Dirichlet Process Models |
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Authors: | Michele Guindani Alan E. Gelfand |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Biostatistics and Applied Mathematics, UT MD Anderson Cancer Care Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA;(2) Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0251, USA |
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Abstract: | When analyzing point-referenced spatial data, interest will be in the first order or global behavior of associated surfaces. However, in order to better understand these surfaces, we may also be interested in second order or local behavior, e.g., in the rate of change of a spatial surface at a given location in a given direction. In a Bayesian parametric setting, such smoothness analysis has been pursued by Banerjee and Gelfand (2003) and Banerjee et al. (2003). We study continuity and differentiability of random surfaces in the Bayesian nonparametric setting proposed by Gelfand et al. (2005), which is based on the formulation of a spatial Dirichlet process (SDP). We provide conditions under which the random surfaces sampled from a SDP are smooth. We also obtain complete distributional theory for the directional finite difference and derivative processes associated with those random surfaces. We present inference under a Bayesian framework and illustrate our methodology with a simulated dataset. |
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Keywords: | Bayesian nonparametrics Directional derivatives Dirichlet process mixture models Finite differences Matérn correlation function, nonstationarity |
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