Imperial College London

ProfessorAlanHeavens

Faculty of Natural SciencesDepartment of Physics

Chair in Astrostatistics
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 2930a.heavens Website

 
 
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Location

 

1018EBlackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Heavens:2023:11/048,
author = {Heavens, A and Trotta, R and Mootoovaloo, A and Sellentin, E},
doi = {11/048},
journal = {Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics},
title = {Extreme data compression for Bayesian model comparison},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2023/11/048},
volume = {2023},
year = {2023}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB - We develop extreme data compression for use in Bayesian model comparison via the MOPED algorithm, as well as more general score compression. We find that Bayes Factors from data compressed with the MOPED algorithm are identical to those from their uncompressed datasets when the models are linear and the errors Gaussian. In other nonlinear cases, whether nested or not, we find negligible differences in the Bayes Factors, and show this explicitly for the Pantheon-SH0ES supernova dataset. We also investigate the sampling properties of the Bayesian Evidence as a frequentist statistic, and find that extreme data compression reduces the sampling variance of the Evidence, but has no impact on the sampling distribution of Bayes Factors. Since model comparison can be a very computationally-intensive task, MOPED extreme data compression may present significant advantages in computational time.
AU - Heavens,A
AU - Trotta,R
AU - Mootoovaloo,A
AU - Sellentin,E
DO - 11/048
PY - 2023///
SN - 1475-7516
TI - Extreme data compression for Bayesian model comparison
T2 - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2023/11/048
UR - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2023/11/048
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/105522
VL - 2023
ER -