Bivariate Hierarchical Bayesian Model for Combining Summary Measures and their Uncertainties from Multiple Sources

09/15/2021
by   Yujing Yao, et al.
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It is often of interest to combine available estimates of a similar quantity from multiple data sources. When the corresponding variances of each estimate are also available, a model should take into account the uncertainty of the estimates themselves as well as the uncertainty in the estimation of variances. In addition, if there exists a strong association between estimates and their variances, the correlation between these two quantities should also be considered. In this paper, we propose a bivariate hierarchical Bayesian model that jointly models the estimates and their estimated variances assuming a correlation between these two measures. We conduct simulations to explore the performance of the proposed bivariate Bayesian model and compare it to other commonly used methods under different correlation scenarios. The proposed bivariate Bayesian model has a wide range of applications. We illustrate its application in three very different areas: PET brain imaging studies, meta-analysis, and small area estimation.

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