Statistics Papers
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
1-2000
Publication Source
Statistics and Computing
Volume
10
Issue
1
Start Page
17
Last Page
24
DOI
10.1023/A:1008980332240
Abstract
The Bayesian CART (classification and regression tree) approach proposed by Chipman, George and McCulloch (1998) entails putting a prior distribution on the set of all CART models and then using stochastic search to select a model. The main thrust of this paper is to propose a new class of hierarchical priors which enhance the potential of this Bayesian approach. These priors indicate a preference for smooth local mean structure, resulting in tree models which shrink predictions from adjacent terminal node towards each other. Past methods for tree shrinkage have searched for trees without shrinking, and applied shrinkage to the identified tree only after the search. By using hierarchical priors in the stochastic search, the proposed method searches for shrunk trees that fit well and improves the tree through shrinkage of predictions.
Copyright/Permission Statement
The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1023/A:1008980332240.
Keywords
binary trees, tree shrinkage, Markov chain Monte Carlo, model selection, stochastic search, mixture models
Recommended Citation
Chipman, H. A., George, E. I., & McCulloch, R. E. (2000). Hierarchical Priors for Bayesian CART Shrinkage. Statistics and Computing, 10 (1), 17-24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1008980332240
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Date Posted: 27 November 2017
This document has been peer reviewed.