Gaussian Process Regression on a Phylogeny
Series:
Statistics Seminar
Date and time:
November 1, 2012, 13:15 - 14:15
Speaker:
Dr John Moriarty (University of Manchester) Biological data may be correlated due to phylogenetic relationships, and may also be more naturally represented by continuous functions than by vectors. I will give a flexible statistical model for such data, by combining assumptions from phylogenetics with Gaussian processes. The model provides a prior distribution for Bayesian inference, enabling both prediction (for ancestral functions) and model selection. This work extends the popular phylogenetic Brownian Motion and Ornstein-Uhlenbeck models to functional data, and extends Gaussian Process regression to phylogenies. I will describe how Principal and Independent Components Analysis may be combined to provide a straightforward practical implementation of this phylogenetic regression for functional data. |
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