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Bayesian inference on sparse multinomial data using smoothed Dirichlet distribution with an application to COVID-19 data

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What is it about?

We develop a Bayesian approach for estimating multinomial cell probabilities using a smoothed Dirichlet prior. We propose a shrinkage-type estimator using this Bayesian approach to estimate multinomial cell probabilities. The proposed estimator allows us to borrow information across other multinomial populations and cell categories simultaneously to improve the estimation of cell probabilities, especially in a context of sparsity with ordered categories. We demonstrate the proposed approach using COVID-19 data and estimate the distribution of positive COVID-19 cases across age groups for Canadian health regions. Our approach allows improved estimation in smaller health regions where few cases have been observed.

Why is it important?

The most important feature of the smoothed Dirichlet prior is that it forces the probabilities of neighboring cells to be closer to each other than under the standard Dirichlet prior.

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Lahiru Wickramasinghe