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Researchers from Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul National University, and the University of Cincinnati have developed a new Bayesian inference method called j-LANCE. This method is designed to identify hidden dependence structures in high-dimensional data across multiple groups, with demonstrated applications in climate data analysis.

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Researchers develop Bayesian inference for hidden dependence structures in multi-group high-dimensional data Sadie Harley Scientific Editor Robert Egan Associate Editor In today's scientific and industrial fields, high-dimensional data in which numerous…

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In such data, it is important to learn the dependent structures connecting the variables and to identify a "dependence map" that reveals hidden information in massive data sets.

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In climate data, temperatures in nearby regions may be related to one another, and in genomic data, genes located in adjacent positions may act together.

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Researchers from Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul National University, and the University of Cincinnati have developed a new Bayesian inference method called j-LANCE. This method is designed to identify hidden dependence structures in high-dimensional data across multiple groups, with demonstrated applications in climate data analysis.

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Claim 1: “The study is published in the journal Bayesian Analysis.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bayesian inference ( BAY-zee-ən or BAY-zhən) is a method of statistical inference in which Bayes' theorem is used to calculate a probability of a hypothesis, given prior evidence, and update it as mo…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A Bayesian network (also known as a Bayes network, Bayes net, belief network, or decision network) is a probabilistic graphical model that represents a set of variables and their conditional dependenc…
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Claim 2: “This study theoretically proved that j-LANCE can accurately estimate the dependence structures of multiple groups, and also showed that the rate at which the estimates approach the true values is nearly minimax-optimal.”
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Claim 3: “The j-LANCE (joint LocAl depeNdence CholEsky) method proposed in the study focuses on the fact that, in real data such as genomic and climate data, variables have a natural ordering and are mainly related to nearby neighboring variables.”
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Claim 4: “Kyoungjae Lee et al, The Joint Local Dependence Cholesky Prior for Bandwidth Selection Across Multiple Groups, Bayesian Analysis (2025). DOI: 10.1214/24-ba1452”
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web search NEUTRAL — An et al. (2014) considered a banded Cholesky factor and proposed a consistent test for bandwidth selection, but they assumed the same local dependence ...
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Claim 5: “this study uses a Markov random field prior, so that similarities and differences across groups can be flexibly learned from the data.”
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Claim 6: “the methodology was designed to enable Bayesian inference without using MCMC, a complex iterative computation procedure”
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Claim 7: “In this study, ERA5 data were used to analyze temperatures at 30 locations in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States from 2019 to 2021”
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Claim 8: “A research team led by Professor Kyoungjae Lee of the Department of Statistics at Sungkyunkwan University, through joint research with Professor Won Chang of Seoul National University and Professor Xuan Cao of the University of Cincinnati, has developed Bayesian inference for the hidden dependence structures of multi-group high-dimensional data.”
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Multiple web search results confirm the research team led by Professor Kyoungjae Lee (SKKU) in collaboration with Professors Won Chang and Xuan Cao developed Bayesian inference for hidden dependence structures in multi-group high-dimensional data.
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web search NEUTRAL — Academic profile for Kyoungjae Lee (Sungkyunkwan University). Stats: 8 h-index, 235 citations, and 30 papers. Explore full publication list, research topics ...
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web search NEUTRAL — 6 days ago · The research team of Professor Kyoungjae Lee of the Department of Statistics at Sungkyunkwan University, through joint research with Professor ...
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