Posts tagged BART

Categorical regression

In this example, we will model outcomes with more than two categories.

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Bayesian Non-parametric Causal Inference

There are few claims stronger than the assertion of a causal relationship and few claims more contestable. A naive world model - rich with tenuous connections and non-sequiter implications is characteristic of conspiracy theory and idiocy. On the other hand, a refined and detailed knowledge of cause and effect characterised by clear expectations, plausible connections and compelling counterfactuals, will steer you well through the buzzing, blooming confusion of the world.

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Quantile Regression with BART

Usually when doing regression we model the conditional mean of some distribution. Common cases are a Normal distribution for continuous unbounded responses, a Poisson distribution for count data, etc.

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Modeling Heteroscedasticity with BART

In this notebook we show how to use BART to model heteroscedasticity as described in Section 4.1 of pymc-bart’s paper [Quiroga et al., 2022]. We use the marketing data set provided by the R package datarium [Kassambara, 2019]. The idea is to model a marketing channel contribution to sales as a function of budget.

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Bayesian Additive Regression Trees: Introduction

Bayesian additive regression trees (BART) is a non-parametric regression approach. If we have some covariates \(X\) and we want to use them to model \(Y\), a BART model (omitting the priors) can be represented as:

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