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We develop a hierarchical infinite latent factor model (HIFM) to appropriately account for the covariance structure across subpopulations in data. We propose a novel Hierarchical Dirichlet Process shrinkage prior on the loadings matrix that…
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The health monitoring of chronic diseases is very important for people with movement disorders because of their limited mobility and long duration of chronic diseases. Machine learning-based processing of data collected from the human with…
Although genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have proven powerful for comprehending the genetic architecture of complex traits, they are challenged by a high dimension of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) as predictors, the presence…
Data fusion modeling can identify common features across diverse data sources while accounting for source-specific variability. Here we introduce the concept of a \textit{coupled generator decomposition} and demonstrate how it generalizes…
Treatment effect estimation from observational data has attracted significant attention across various research fields. However, many widely used methods rely on the unconfoundedness assumption, which is often unrealistic due to the…
Fundus imaging is a critical tool in ophthalmology, with different imaging modalities offering unique advantages. For instance, fundus fluorescein angiography (FFA) can accurately identify eye diseases. However, traditional invasive FFA…