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Bayesian cluster analysis

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Sara Wade *
DOI:10.1098/rsta.2022.0149delete
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Bayesian cluster analysis offers substantial benefits over algorithmic approaches by providing not only point estimates but also uncertainty in the clustering structure and patterns within each cluster. An overview of Bayesian cluster analysis is provided, including both model-based and loss-based approaches, along with a discussion on the importance of the kernel or loss selected and prior specification. Advantages are demonstrated in an application to cluster cells and discover latent cell types in single-cell RNA sequencing data to study embryonic cellular development. Lastly, we focus on the ongoing debate between finite and infinite mixtures in a model-based approach and robustness to model misspecification. While much of the debate and asymptotic theory focuses on the marginal posterior of the number of clusters, we empirically show that quite a different behaviour is obtained when estimating the full clustering structure.This article is part of the theme issue 'Bayesian inference: challenges, perspectives, and prospects'.
Keywords:
Bayesian analysis
clustering
ensembles
mixture models
model misspecification
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
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University of Edinburgh
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