[Forum SIS] Seminario Prof. Ongaro 09-05-2013

[Dip. Scienze Statistiche - Mi]

Il Dipartimento di Scienze statistiche dell'Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore ha organizzato un seminario, presentato dal Prof. Andrea ONGARO, dell'Università di Milano-Bicocca, dal titolo:



A new model for compositional data which generalizes the Dirichlet distribution



Giovedì 09 Maggio dalle ore 11,30

in Aula G 051



Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Milano

Largo Gemelli,1

Abstract:

Compositional data consist of proportions and are therefore subject to a unit-sum constraint. Such data originate, for example, when analyzing rock compositions, household budgets, pollution or biological components and arise naturally in a great variety of disciplines.

In this seminar, a new parametric family of distributions for compositional data is proposed and investigated. Such family, called flexible Dirichlet, is obtained by normalizing a correlated basis and is a particular Dirichlet mixture. The Dirichlet distribution is included as an inner point. The flexible Dirichlet is shown to exhibit a rich dependence pattern, capable of discriminating among many of the independence concepts relevant for compositional data. At the same time it can model multi-modality. A number of stochastic representations are presented, disclosing its remarkable tractability. In particular, it is closed under marginalization, conditioning, subcomposition, amalgamation and permutation. An illustrative application to real data is shown. Finally, possible uses of the flexible Dirichlet within the Bayesian approach are touched upon.



Segreteria Organizzativa:
Barbara Villa
Addetto Amministrativo Segreteria
Dipartimento di Scienze statistiche
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Largo Gemelli, 1
Edificio Via Lanzone, 18
20123 Milano
Tel. 02/72342647
Fax 02/72343064
http://dipartimenti.unicatt.it/scienze_statistiche


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