Date: 2013-09-13

Time: 15:30-16:30

Location: BURN 1205

Abstract:

A new density estimation method in a Bayesian nonparametric framework is presented when recorded data are not coming directly from the distribution of interest, but from a length biased version. From a Bayesian perspective, efforts to computationally evaluate posterior quantities conditionally on length biased data were hindered by the inability to circumvent the problem of a normalizing constant. In this talk a novel Bayesian nonparametric approach to the length bias sampling problem is presented which circumvents the issue of the normalizing constant. Numerical illustrations as well as a real data example are presented and the estimator is compared against its frequentist counterpart, the kernel density estimator for indirect data." This is joint work with: a) Spyridon J. Hatjispyros, University of the Aegean, Greece. b)Stephen G. Walker, University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.

Speaker

Theodoros Nicoleris is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.