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JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PLANNING AND INFERENCE
Volume 139, Issue 8, Pages 2665-2674Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2008.12.004
Keywords
Bayesian variable selection; Collinearity; Powered correlation prior; Zellner's g-prior
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- NSF [DMS-0705968]
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The problem of selecting the correct Subset of predictors within a linear model has received much attention in recent literature. Within the Bayesian framework, a popular choice of prior has been Zellner's g-prior which is based oil the inverse of empirical covariance matrix of the predictors. An extension of the Zellner's prior is proposed in this article which allow for a power parameter oil the empirical covariance of the predictors. The power parameter helps control the degree to which correlated predictors are smoothed towards or away from one another. In addition, the empirical covariance of the predictors is used to obtain suitable priors over model space. In this manner, the power parameter also helps to determine whether models containing highly collinear predictors are preferred or avoided. The proposed power parameter can be chosen via an empirical Bayes method which leads to a data adaptive choice of prior. Simulation studies and a real data example are presented to show how the power parameter is well determined from the degree of cross-correlation within predictors. The proposed modification compares favorably to the standard use of Zellner's prior and an intrinsic prior in these examples. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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