Nicholas Polson
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Nicholas Polson's Degrees
- PhD Statistics University of Chicago
- Masters Statistics University of Chicago
Why Is Nicholas Polson Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nicholas Polson is a British statistician who is a professor of econometrics and statistics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His works are primarily in Bayesian statistics, Markov chain Monte Carlo and Sequential Monte Carlo, . Polson was educated at Worcester College, Oxford University and the University of Nottingham where his PhD supervisor was Adrian Smith.
Nicholas Polson's Published Works
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Published Works
- Bayesian Analysis of Stochastic Volatility Models (1994) (1725)
- The Impact of Jumps in Volatility and Returns (2000) (1122)
- The horseshoe estimator for sparse signals (2010) (1120)
- Bayesian Inference for Logistic Models Using Pólya–Gamma Latent Variables (2012) (807)
- Deep learning for short-term traffic flow prediction (2016) (681)
- A Monte Carlo Approach to Nonnormal and Nonlinear State-Space Modeling (1992) (630)
- Bayesian analysis of stochastic volatility models with fat-tails and correlated errors (2004) (627)
- Particle Filtering (2006) (615)
- Shrink Globally, Act Locally: Sparse Bayesian Regularization and Prediction (2012) (432)
- Handling Sparsity via the Horseshoe (2009) (418)
- Evidence for and the Impact of Jumps in Volatility and Returns (2001) (371)
- On the half-cauchy prior for a global scale parameter (2011) (340)
- A Bayesian analysis of the multinomial probit model with fully identified parameters (2000) (298)
- Deep Learning for Finance: Deep Portfolios (2016) (271)
- Bayesian Analysis of Stochastic Volatility Models: Comments: Reply (1994) (270)
- Optimal Filtering of Jump Diffusions: Extracting Latent States from Asset Prices (2009) (202)
- MCMC Methods for Continuous-Time Financial Econometrics (2003) (200)
- Deep learning for finance: deep portfolios: J. B. HEATON, N. G. POLSON AND J. H. WITTE (2017) (192)
- Data augmentation for support vector machines (2011) (186)
- Tracking Epidemics With Google Flu Trends Data and a State-Space SEIR Model (2012) (156)
- MCMC Methods for Financial Econometrics (2002) (155)
- The Horseshoe+ Estimator of Ultra-Sparse Signals (2015) (131)
- Inference for nonconjugate Bayesian Models using the Gibbs sampler (1991) (131)
- On the Geometric Convergence of the Gibbs Sampler (1994) (130)
- The Bayesian bridge (2011) (126)
- Deep Learning in Finance (2016) (126)
- Proximal Algorithms in Statistics and Machine Learning (2015) (123)
- Local shrinkage rules, Lévy processes and regularized regression (2010) (121)
- Dynamic Trees for Learning and Design (2009) (121)
- Particle Learning of Gaussian Process Models for Sequential Design and Optimization (2009) (115)
- Sequential Learning, Predictability, and Optimal Portfolio Returns (2013) (107)
- MCMC maximum likelihood for latent state models (2007) (99)
- Stochastic Volatility: Univariate and Multivariate Extensions (1999) (97)
- Deep Learning: A Bayesian Perspective (2017) (93)
- Lasso Meets Horseshoe: A Survey (2017) (93)
- Sequential Learning, Predictability, and Optimal Portfolio Returns: Sequential Learning, Predictability, and Optimal Portfolio Returns (2014) (92)
- Bayesian Portfolio Selection: An Empirical Analysis of the S&P 500 Index 1970–1996 (2000) (91)
- Sampling from log-concave distributions (1994) (84)
- Practical filtering with sequential parameter learning (2008) (76)
- Particle learning for general mixtures (2010) (76)
- Simulation-based Regularized Logistic Regression (2010) (64)
- Models and Priors for Multivariate Stochastic Volatility (1995) (61)
- Posterior Concentration for Sparse Deep Learning (2018) (59)
- Diagnostic Measures for Model Criticism (1996) (58)
- Deep learning for spatio‐temporal modeling: Dynamic traffic flows and high frequency trading (2017) (51)
- Deep Learning for Predicting Asset Returns (2018) (48)
- Nonlinear State-Space Models With State-Dependent Variances (2003) (48)
- Default Bayesian Analysis with Global-Local Shrinkage Priors (2015) (46)
- Bayesian Theory and Applications (2013) (45)
- Corporate Credit Spreads under Parameter Uncertainty (2009) (41)
- Bayesian Instrumental Variables: Priors and Likelihoods (2014) (40)
- Bayes factors for discrete observations from diffusion processes (1994) (38)
- Data augmentation for non-Gaussian regression models using variance-mean mixtures (2011) (36)
- Sampling P olya-Gamma random variates: alternate and approximate techniques (2014) (32)
- Deep Learning in Characteristics-Sorted Factor Models (2018) (31)
- Deep Learning Predictors for Traffic Flows (2016) (30)
- Nonlinear Filtering of Stochastic Differential Equations with Jumps (2002) (29)
- Sequential Bayesian Analysis of Multivariate Count Data (2016) (29)
- State Space and Unobserved Component Models: Practical filtering for stochastic volatility models (2004) (29)
- Sequential Parameter Estimation in Stochastic Volatility Models with Jumps (2006) (28)
- Bayesian analysis of traffic flow on interstate I-55: The LWR model (2014) (28)
- Particle Learning for Sequential Bayesian Computation (2012) (27)
- Good, great, or lucky? Screening for firms with sustained superior performance using heavy-tailed priors (2010) (27)
- Bayesian Particle Tracking of Traffic Flows (2014) (25)
- Deep Portfolio Theory (2016) (23)
- A representation of the posterior mean for a location model (1991) (20)
- Predictive Macro-Finance With Dynamic Partition Models (2011) (20)
- Prior distributions for the bivariate binomial (1990) (19)
- A Note on the Residual Entropy Function (1993) (19)
- Particle Filtering and Parameter Learning (2007) (18)
- Weighted Bayesian bootstrap for scalable posterior distributions (2020) (18)
- Mixtures, envelopes and hierarchical duality (2014) (18)
- Bayesian regularization: From Tikhonov to horseshoe (2019) (17)
- Rejoinder to ‘Deep learning for finance: deep portfolios’: REJOINDER (2017) (17)
- Optimal portfolio choice and stochastic volatility (2012) (17)
- Augmented Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulation for Two-Stage Stochastic Programs with Recourse (2014) (16)
- Bayesian l 0 ‐regularized least squares (2017) (16)
- Bayesian Analysis of a Stochastic Volatility Model with Leverage Effect and Fat Tails (2001) (16)
- Asset Allocation in Finance: A Bayesian Perspective (2011) (15)
- Prediction Risk for the Horseshoe Regression (2016) (14)
- The Horseshoe-Like Regularization for Feature Subset Selection (2019) (14)
- Explosive Volatility: A Model of Financial Contagion (2011) (14)
- From Least Squares to Signal Processing and Particle Filtering (2017) (14)
- On the Expected Amount of Information from a Non‐Linear Model (1992) (13)
- Default Bayesian analysis for multi-way tables: a data-augmentation approach (2011) (13)
- Alternative Global – Local Shrinkage Priors Using Hypergeometric – Beta Mixtures (2009) (13)
- Large-scale simultaneous testing with hypergeometric inverted-beta priors (2010) (13)
- Lasso Meets Horseshoe (2017) (13)
- Statistical sparsity (2017) (12)
- Exact Particle Filtering and Parameter Learning (2006) (12)
- Horseshoe Regularization for Machine Learning in Complex and Deep Models (2019) (11)
- Why Indexing Works (2015) (11)
- Vertical-likelihood Monte Carlo (2014) (10)
- Weighted Bayesian Bootstrap for Scalable Bayes (2018) (10)
- Chess AI: Competing Paradigms for Machine Intelligence (2021) (10)
- Particle Learning for Fat-Tailed Distributions (2016) (9)
- Why indexing works: Wny Indexing Works (2017) (9)
- A utility based approach to information for stochastic differential equations (1993) (9)
- Augmented nested sampling for stochastic programs with recourse and endogenous uncertainty (2017) (9)
- Deep Learning Partial Least Squares (2021) (9)
- Bayesian Methods In Finance (2011) (9)
- Horseshoe Regularisation for Machine Learning in Complex and Deep Models 1 (2019) (9)
- The implied volatility of a sports game (2015) (9)
- A deconvolution path for mixtures (2015) (8)
- A simulation-based approach to stochastic dynamic programming (2011) (8)
- Horseshoe Regularization for Feature Subset Selection (2017) (8)
- Sparse Bayes estimation in non-Gaussian models via data augmentation (2011) (8)
- Sequential learning , predictive regressions , and optimal p ortfolio returns PRELIMINARY (2009) (8)
- Sequential Bayesian learning for stochastic volatility with variance‐gamma jumps in returns (2018) (8)
- Deep learning: Computational aspects (2018) (7)
- Bayesian statistics with a smile: A resampling-sampling perspective (2012) (7)
- [Practical Markov Chain Monte Carlo]: Comment (1992) (7)
- CHAPTER 13 – MCMC Methods for Continuous-Time Financial Econometrics (2010) (7)
- Bayesian perspectives on statistical modelling (1988) (7)
- Deep Factor Alpha (2018) (6)
- Deep Learning Factor Alpha ∗ (2018) (6)
- A Statistical Theory of Deep Learning via Proximal Splitting (2015) (6)
- Split Sampling: Expectations, Normalisation and Rare Events (2012) (6)
- Investing in Leveraged Index Funds (1999) (6)
- The market for English Premier League (EPL) odds (2016) (5)
- Tracking Epidemics with State-space SEIR and Google Flu Trends (2009) (5)
- Particle Learning in Nonlinear Models using Slice Variables (2009) (5)
- Simulation-based-Estimation in Portfolio Selection (2009) (5)
- Deep Fundamental Factor Models (2019) (4)
- A family of multivariate non‐gaussian time series models (2020) (4)
- Augmented probability simulation for accelerated life test design (2017) (4)
- Ineligibles and eligible non-participants as a double comparison group in regression-discontinuity designs (2018) (4)
- Rejoinder: "Data augmentation for support vector machines" (2011) (4)
- [RETRACTED] On Hilbert’s 8th problem (2017) (4)
- Global-Local Mixtures (2016) (4)
- Merging Two Cultures: Deep and Statistical Learning (2021) (4)
- Prediction risk for global-local shrinkage regression (2016) (4)
- Volatility Timing and Portfolio Returns (2000) (4)
- Analysis of economic data with multiscale spatio-temporal models (2018) (4)
- Quantile Filtering and Learning (2009) (4)
- Scalable Data Augmentation for Deep Learning (2019) (4)
- A Bellman View of Jesse Livermore (2014) (3)
- Regularizing Bayesian predictive regressions (2016) (3)
- Optimisation via Slice Sampling (2012) (3)
- Sequential Bayesian Analysis of Multivariate Poisson Count Data (2016) (3)
- Short Communication: Deep Fundamental Factor Models (2020) (3)
- Bayesian hypothesis testing: Redux (2018) (3)
- Deep Partial Least Squares for IV Regression (2022) (3)
- Diagnostic Measures for Model (1993) (3)
- Markov Chain Monte Carlo (2009) (3)
- Testing the parametric form of the volatility in continuous time diffusion models - a stochastic process approach (2019) (3)
- Sequential Inference for Nonlinear Models using Slice Variables (2009) (2)
- Maximum Expected Utility via MCMC (2006) (2)
- Analyzing Risky Choices: Q-learning for Deal-No-Deal (2011) (2)
- Bayesian Inference for Polya Inverse Gamma Models. (2019) (2)
- CHAPTER ON BAYESIAN INFERENCE FOR STOCHASTIC VOLATILITY MODELING (2010) (2)
- van Dantzig Pairs, Wald Couples and Hadamard Factorisation. (2018) (2)
- Bayesian Computation in Finance (2010) (2)
- Bayesian estimation of nonlinear equilibrium models with random coefficients (2015) (2)
- Riemann's Xi-function: A GGC representation (2018) (2)
- A Bayesian Decision Theoretic Characterization of Poisson Processes (1991) (1)
- Bayesian Inference for Gamma Models (2021) (1)
- Deep Learning (2018) (1)
- Global-Local Mixtures: A Unifying Framework (2020) (1)
- Sequential Bayesian Learning for Merton's Jump Model with Stochastic Volatility (2016) (1)
- Particle Learning for Fat-tailed Distributions 1 (2010) (1)
- Sparse Regularization in Marketing and Economics (2017) (1)
- Deep Learning in Asset Pricing∗ (2019) (1)
- Regularization via Data Augmentation (2011) (1)
- Deep Partial Least Squares for Empirical Asset Pricing (2022) (1)
- Correction: Sampling from Log-Concave Distributions (1994) (1)
- Série Scientifique Scientific Series N o 95 s18 MODELS AND PRIORS FOR MULTIVARIATE STOCHASTIC VOLATILITY (1997) (0)
- Where Will Yahoo! Stock Be in Five Years? (2000) (0)
- Vertical-likelihood Monte Carlo Integration (2014) (0)
- 1 5 O ct 2 01 8 Riemann Hypothesis : a GGC factorisation (2018) (0)
- Wald Couples and Hadamard Factorisation (2018) (0)
- Distribution free specification tests of conditional models (2018) (0)
- Data Augementation with Polya Inverse Gamma (2019) (0)
- Testing for unit root processes in random coefficient autoregressive models (2019) (0)
- Feature Selection for Personalized Policy Analysis (2022) (0)
- Data Augmentation for Bayesian Deep Learning (2019) (0)
- Internet Appendix for : Sequential Learning , Predictability , and Optimal Portfolio Returns (2013) (0)
- Karpov's Queen Sacrifices and AI (2021) (0)
- Iterative and Recursive Estimation in Structural Nonadaptive Models: Comment (2003) (0)
- The Impact ofJumps inVolatility and Returns (2002) (0)
- Discussion on ‘Adversarial risk analysis: Borel games’ (2011) (0)
- PolyaGamma Sampling [R package BayesLogit version 2.1] (2019) (0)
- Rejoinder to “Sequential Bayesian learning for stochastic volatility with variance-gamma jumps in returns” Reply to the discussions by Nalini Ravishanker and Refik Soyer (2018) (0)
- Accelerated Life Tests That Maximize Shannon Information (1988) (0)
- Retraction: On Hilbert’s 8th problem (2018) (0)
- Bayesian Analysis of A General Class of Multivariate Exponential Family of State Space Models (2017) (0)
- Computations in Bayesian Design of Life Tests (2009) (0)
- Riemann Hypothesis: a GGC factorisation (2018) (0)
- Exceedance as a measure of sparsity (2017) (0)
- Adaptive consistent unit root tests based on autoregressive threshold model (2019) (0)
- Nonparametric simultaneous testing for structural breaks (2020) (0)
- Bayesian Design for Random Walk Barriers (2009) (0)
- The Market for English Premier League Odds12 (2017) (0)
- Inverse Probability Weighting: from Survey Sampling to Evidence Estimation (2022) (0)
- Sequential Regression Trees for Learning and Design (2009) (0)
- An empirical test for Eurozone contagion using an asset-pricing model with heavy-tailed stochastic volatility (2011) (0)
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