Handbook of
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Handbook of
Approximate Bayesian
Computation
Edited by
S. A. Sisson
Y. Fan
M. A. Beaumont
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Names: Sisson, S. A. (Scott A), editor. | Fan, Y. (Yanan), editor. |
Beaumont, M. A. (Mark A.), editor.
Title: Handbook of approximate Bayesian computation / edited by S.A. Sisson,
Y. Fan, M.A. Beaumont.
Description: Boca Raton, Florida : CRC Press, [2019] | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018010970 | ISBN 9781439881507 (hardback : alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781315117195 (e-book) | ISBN 9781439881514 (web pdf) | ISBN
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Subjects: LCSH: Bayesian statistical decision theory. | Mathematical analysis.
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Contents
Preface
Editors
Contributors
I Methods
1 Overview of ABC
S. A. Sisson, Y. Fan, and M. A. Beaumont
2 On the History of ABC
Simon Tavar´e
3 Regression Approaches for ABC
Michael G.B. Blum
4 ABC Samplers
S. A. Sisson and Y. Fan
5 Summary Statistics
Dennis Prangle
6 Likelihood-Free Model Choice
Jean-Michel Marin, Pierre Pudlo, Arnaud Estoup,
and Christian Robert
7 ABC and Indirect Inference
Christopher C. Drovandi
8 High-Dimensional ABC
David J. Nott, Victor M.-H. Ong, Y. Fan, and S. A. Sisson
9 Theoretical and Methodological Aspects of Markov
Chain Monte Carlo Computations with Noisy
Likelihoods
Christophe Andrieu, Anthony Lee, and Matti Vihola
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10 Asymptotics of ABC
Paul Fearnhead
11 Informed Choices: How to Calibrate ABC
with Hypothesis Testing
Oliver Ratmann, Anton Camacho, Sen Hu, and Caroline Colijn
12 Approximating the Likelihood in ABC
Christopher C. Drovandi, Clara Grazian, Kerrie Mengersen,
and Christian Robert
13 A Guide to General-Purpose ABC Software
Athanasios Kousathanas, Pablo Duchen, and Daniel Wegmann
14 Divide and Conquer in ABC: Expectation-Propagation
Algorithms for Likelihood-Free Inference
Simon Barthelm´e, Nicolas Chopin, and Vincent Cottet
II Applications
15 Sequential Monte Carlo-ABC Methods for Estimation
of Stochastic Simulation Models of the Limit Order
Book
Gareth W. Peters, Efstathios Panayi, and Francois Septier
16 Inferences on the Acquisition of Multi-Drug
Resistance in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Using
Molecular Epidemiological Data
Guilherme S. Rodrigues, Andrew R. Francis, S. A. Sisson,
and Mark M. Tanaka
17 ABC in Systems Biology
Juliane Liepe and Michael P.H. Stumpf
18 Application of ABC to Infer the Genetic History
of Pygmy Hunter-Gatherer Populations from Western
Central Africa
Arnaud Estoup, Paul Verdu, Jean-Michel Marin,
Christian Robert, Alex Dehne-Garcia, Jean-Marie Cornuet,
and Pierre Pudlo
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19 ABC for Climate: Dealing with Expensive Simulators
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Philip B. Holden, Neil R. Edwards, James Hensman,
and Richard D. Wilkinson
Contents
20 ABC in Ecological Modelling
Matteo Fasiolo and Simon N. Wood
21 ABC in Nuclear Imaging
Y. Fan, Steven R. Meikle, Georgios I. Angelis,
and Arkadiusz Sitek
Index
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