Constantin Yiannoutsos

Overview

Constantin (Costas) T. Yiannoutsos is a biostatistician (Indiana University; formerly Harvard School of Public Health) working on Bayesian methods, HIV/AIDS clinical epidemiology, and statistical computing.

Key Contributions / Features

• Bayesian variable selection for logistic regression (Chen-Ibrahim-Yiannoutsos 1999): informative priors on the coefficients (via a prediction $y_0$ and precision $a_0$) and on the model space; posterior model probabilities computed from a single model's Gibbs output. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B 61(1): 223–242.

Related

• Variable Selection
• Power Prior
• Ming-Hui Chen
• Joseph G. Ibrahim
• Chen-Ibrahim-Yiannoutsos (1999)