How to choose features or p values for empirical Bayes estimation of the local false discovery rate

1 December 2018 Leave a comment

F. Abbas-Aghababazadeh, M. Alvo, and D. R. Bickel, “Estimating the local false discovery rate via a bootstrap solution to the reference class problem,” PLoS ONE 13, e0206902 (2018) | full text | 2016 preprint

Categories: empirical Bayes, genetic association, publications, trainee author

R functions for combining probabilities using game theory

15 November 2018 Leave a comment

Suite of R functions for combination of probabilities using a game-theoretic method

Source: Combine package | R Documentation

Categories: imprecise probability, MDL, software, trainee author

Why adjust priors for the simplicity of data distributions?

1 November 2018 Leave a comment

D. R. Bickel, “An explanatory rationale for priors sharpened into Occam’s razors,” Working Paper, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1412875, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1412875 (2018). 2018 preprint

Categories: complexity, preprints

R package for estimating local false discovery rates using empirical Bayes methods

15 October 2018 Leave a comment

LFDREmpiricalBayes — Estimating Local False Discovery Rates Using Empirical Bayes Methods

Source: GitHub – cran/LFDREmpiricalBayes:  This is a read-only mirror of the CRAN R package repository. LFDREmpiricalBayes — Estimating Local False Discovery Rates Using Empirical Bayes Methods

Categories: empirical Bayes, software, trainee author

Lower the statistical significance threshold to 0.005—or 0.001?

1 October 2018 Leave a comment

D. R. Bickel, “Sharpen statistical significance: Evidence thresholds and Bayes factors sharpened into Occam’s razors,” Working Paper, University of Ottawa, <hal-01851322> https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01851322 (2018). 2018 preprint

Categories: complexity, empirical Bayes, fiducial inference, preprints, statistical evidence

“The Fiducialist Papers” archived in favor of “sIBEe”

20 September 2018 Leave a comment

The name of the website The Fiducialist Papers: Evidence and Likelihood was just broadened to Statistical Inference to the Best Explanation of the Evidence (sIBEe).

Categories: Fragments

Pre-data insights update priors via Bayes’s theorem

1 September 2018 Leave a comment

D. R. Bickel, “Bayesian revision of a prior given prior-data conflict, expert opinion, or a similar insight: A large-deviation approach,” Statistics 52, 552-570 (2018). Full text | 2015 preprint | Simple explanation

Categories: fiducial inference, maximum entropy, model checking, publications, simply explained, statistical evidence