Overview
Chris T. Volinsky is a statistician and data scientist (AT&T Labs Research), known for Bayesian model averaging in survival analysis and for work on recommender systems (a member of the Netflix Prize-winning team).
Key Contributions / Features
- BMA for survival analysis (Volinsky-Madigan-Raftery-Kronmal 1997): Bayesian model averaging for Cox proportional-hazards models, using leaps-and-bounds to identify the retained models.
- BMA tutorial (Hoeting-Madigan-Raftery-Volinsky 1999): co-author of the canonical practical reference.
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