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Stefano Favaro |
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Assistant Professor of Statistics Affiliate at Collegio Carlo Alberto |
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Ph.D. in Statistics, Department of Decision Sciences, Bocconi University, 2009 Laurea in Statistics, Department of Statistics, Ca' Foscari University, 2003 |
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Department of Statistics and Applied Mathematics Corso Unione Sovietica 218/bis 10134 Torino - Italy Email: stefano(.)favaro(at)unito(.)it Phone: +39 011 6705724 |
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Research interests: Bayesian nonparametric statistics
Some coauthors: D. Ait Aoudia, S. Bacallado, P. De Blasi, A. Guglielmi, A. Lijoi, R.H. Mena, P. Muliere, I. Pruenster, M. Ruggiero, Y. W. Teh, L. Trippa, S.G. Walker
Publications in refereed journals:
Conditional formulae for Gibbs-type exchangeable random partitions, with A. Lijoi and I. Pruenster. The Annals of Applied Probability, 2012, to appear.
A class of normalized random measures with an exact predictive sampling scheme, with L. Trippa. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 2012, to appear.
Asymptotics for a Bayesian nonparametric estimator of species richness, with A. Lijoi and I. Pruenster. Bernoulli, 2012, to appear.
On a class of distributions on the simplex, with G. Hadjicharalambous and I. Pruenster. Journal of Statistical Planning and inference, 2012, vol. 141, pp. 2987-3004.
A class of measure-valued Markov chains and Bayesian nonparametrics, with A. Guglielmi and S.G. Walker. Bernoulli, 2012, to appear.
On a generalized Chu-Vandermonde identity, with I. Pruenster and S.G. Walker. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 2012, to appear.
On a class of random probability measures with general predictive structure, with I. Pruenster and S.G. Walker. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 2011, vol. 38, pp. 359-376.
A class of neutral to the right priors induced by superposition of beta processes, with P. De Blasi and P. Muliere. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 2010. vol. 140, pp. 1563-1575.
On the distribution of sums of exponential random variables via Wilk's integral representation, with S.G. Walker. Acta Applicandae Mathematicae, 2010, vol. 109, pp. 1035-1042.
Bayesian nonparametric inference for species variety with a two parameter Poisson-Dirichlet process prior, with A. Lijoi, R.H. Mena and I. Pruenster. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B, 2009, vol. 71, pp. 993-1008.
A Gibbs-sampler based random process in Bayesian nonparametrics, with M. Ruggiero and S.G. Walker. Electronic Journal of Statistics, 2009, vol. 3, pp. 1557-1567.
A generalized constructive definition for the Dirichlet process, with S.G. Walker. Statistics and Probability Letters, 2008, vol. 78, pp. 2836-2838.
Conference proceedings and other publications:
On some issues related to species sampling problems, with A. Lijoi, R.H. Mena and I. Pruenster. Proceedings S.Co 2011.
Superposition of beta processes, with P. De Blasi and P. Muliere. Proceedings S.Co 2009.
Contributions to the Dirichlet process and related classes of random probability measures. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Decision Sciences, Bocconi University.
Genetic approaches for data clustering, with S. Paterlini and T. Minerva. Proceedings CLADAG 2001.
Preprints:
Reinforced urn processes indexed by the vertices of a recombinant binary tree, with D. Ait Aoudia and P. Muliere. Submitted, 2010.
Alpha-diversity processes and normalized inverse Gaussian diffusion, with M. Ruggiero and S.G. Walker. Submitted, 2010.
On the stick-breaking representation of normalized inverse Gaussian priors, with A. Lijoi and I. Pruenster. Submitted, 2011.
Slice sampling sigma-stable Poisson-Kingman mixture models, with S.G. Walker. Submitted, 2011.
A new estimator of the discovery probability, with A. Lijoi and I. Pruenster. Submitted, 2011.