A comparative review of dimension reduction methods in approximate Bayesian computation

Blum, M. G. B., Nunes, M. A., Prangle, D. and Sisson, S. A. (2013) A comparative review of dimension reduction methods in approximate Bayesian computation. Statistical Science, 28 (2). pp. 189-208. ISSN 0883-4237 doi: 10.1214/12-STS406SUPP

Abstract/Summary

Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) methods make use of comparisons between simulated and observed summary statistics to overcome the problem of computationally intractable likelihood functions. As the practical implementation of ABC requires computations based on vectors of summary statistics, rather than full data sets, a central question is how to derive low-dimensional summary statistics from the observed data with minimal loss of information. In this article we provide a comprehensive review and comparison of the performance of the principal methods of dimension reduction proposed in the ABC literature. The methods are split into three nonmutually exclusive classes consisting of best subset selection methods, projection techniques and regularization. In addition, we introduce two new methods of dimension reduction. The first is a best subset selection method based on Akaike and Bayesian information criteria, and the second uses ridge regression as a regularization procedure. We illustrate the performance of these dimension reduction techniques through the analysis of three challenging models and data sets.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/33283
Identification Number/DOI	10.1214/12-STS406SUPP
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Uncontrolled Keywords	Approximate Bayesian computation; dimension reduction; likelihood-free inference; regularization; variable selection
Publisher	Institute of Mathematical Statistics
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