Nonparametric Bayesian Deconvolution of a Symmetric Unimodal Density

02/17/2020
by   Ya Su, et al.
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We consider nonparametric measurement error density deconvolution subject to heteroscedastic measurement errors as well as symmetry about zero and shape constraints, in particular unimodality. The problem is motivated by applications where the observed data are estimated effect sizes from regressions on multiple factors, where the target is the distribution of the true effect sizes. We exploit the fact that any symmetric and unimodal density can be expressed as a mixture of symmetric uniform densities, and model the mixing density in a new way using a Dirichlet process location-mixture of Gamma distributions. We do the computations within a Bayesian context, describe a simple scalable implementation that is linear in the sample size, and show that the estimate of the unknown target density is consistent. Within our application context of regression effect sizes, the target density is likely to have a large probability near zero (the near null effects) coupled with a heavy-tailed distribution (the actual effects). Simulations show that unlike standard deconvolution methods, our Constrained Bayesian Deconvolution method does a much better job of reconstruction of the target density. Applications to a genome-wise association study (GWAS) and microarray data reveal similar results.

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