Date of Award
2015
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Mathematical Sciences (MS)
College, School or Department Name
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Advisor
Min Wang
Abstract
In this thesis, we consider Bayesian inference on the detection of variance change-point models with scale mixtures of normal (for short SMN) distributions. This class of distributions is symmetric and thick-tailed and includes as special cases: Gaussian, Student-t, contaminated normal, and slash distributions. The proposed models provide greater flexibility to analyze a lot of practical data, which often show heavy-tail and may not satisfy the normal assumption.
As to the Bayesian analysis, we specify some prior distributions for the unknown parameters in the variance change-point models with the SMN distributions. Due to the complexity of the joint posterior distribution, we propose an efficient Gibbs-type with Metropolis- Hastings sampling algorithm for posterior Bayesian inference. Thereafter, following the idea of [1], we consider the problems of the single and multiple change-point detections. The performance of the proposed procedures is illustrated and analyzed by simulation studies. A real application to the closing price data of U.S. stock market has been analyzed for illustrative purposes.
Recommended Citation
Kang, Shuaimin, "Bayesian change-point analysis in linear regression model with scale mixtures of normal distributions", Master's Thesis, Michigan Technological University, 2015.