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Bayesian hierarchical mixture models for detecting non-normal clusters applied to noisy genomic and environmental datasets

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01/08/2022
Author
Zhang, Huizi
Swallow, Ben
Gupta, Mayetri
Keywords
Data augmentation
Gibbs sampling
Latent variable models
Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Non-Gaussian clusters
SNP genotyping
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QH301 Biology
QH426 Genetics
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Clustering to find subgroups with common features is often a necessary first step in the statistical modelling and analysis of large and complex datasets. Although follow-up analyses often make use of complex statistical models that are appropriate for the specific application, most popular clustering approaches are either nonparametric, or based on Gaussian mixture models and their variants, often for reasons of computational efficiency. Certain characteristics in the data, such as the presence of outliers, or non-ellipsoidal cluster shapes, that are common in modern scientific datasets, often lead these methods to fail to detect the cluster components accurately. In this article, we present two efficient and robust Bayesian clustering approaches that seek to overcome these limitations-a model-based 'tight' clustering approach to cluster points in the presence of outliers, and a hierarchical Laplace mixture-based approach to cluster heavy-tailed and otherwise non-normal cluster components-and illustrate their power and accuracy in detecting meaningful clusters in datasets from genomics, imaging and the environmental sciences.
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Zhang , H , Swallow , B & Gupta , M 2022 , ' Bayesian hierarchical mixture models for detecting non-normal clusters applied to noisy genomic and environmental datasets ' , Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics , vol. 64 , no. 2 , pp. 313-337 . https://doi.org/10.1111/anzs.12370
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/anzs.12370
ISSN
1369-1473
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Journal article
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Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Statistical Society of Australia. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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