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Empirical Bayes is a versatile approach to `learn from a lot' in two ways: first, from a large number of variables and second, from a potentially large amount of prior information, e.g. stored in public repositories. We review applications of a variety of empirical Bayes methods to several well-known model-based prediction methods including penalized regression, linear discriminant analysis, and Bayesian models with sparse or dense priors. We discuss `formal' empirical Bayes methods which maximize the marginal likelihood, but also more informal approaches based on other data summaries. We contrast empirical Bayes to cross-validation and full Bayes, and discuss hybrid approaches. To study the relation between the quality of an empirical Bayes estimator and $p$, the number of variables, we consider a simple empirical Bayes estimator in a linear model setting. We argue that empirical Bayes is particularly useful when the prior contains multiple parameters which model a priori information on variables, termed `co-data'. In particular, we present two novel examples that allow for co-data. First, a Bayesian spike-and-slab setting that facilitates inclusion of multiple co-data sources and

Author

van de Wiel, Mark A.; Beest, Dennis E. te; Münch, Magnus

Published

2017

Language

EN