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ICU Does Not Overlook the Opportunity to Utilize OPRA Requests
OPRA requests are one of the best tools the public has to obtain government information on a state, county, or municipal level. This New Jersey law is often overlooked as a means to collect public information, but the New Jersey Open Public Records Act mandates that the public agency produces the record requested within seven business days of receiving the request.
We can request records from specific departments (then an agency within that department) such as:
- Agriculture
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- Children and families
- Civil service commission
- Commissions and agencies
- Community affairs
- Corrections
- Education
- Environmental protection
- Office of Governor
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- Labor
- Law and public safety
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- State
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It is important to remember that some records are exempt from disclosure. Exempt records are listed below:
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- Consultative or deliberative material (drafts of documents)
- Records protected by court order
- Records protected by attorney-client privilege
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- Legislative records
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- Trade secrets and proprietary commercial or financial information
- Administrative or technical information regarding computer hardware, software and networks which, if disclosed would jeopardize computer security
- Emergency or security information or procedures for buildings or facilities which, if disclosed, would jeopardize security of the building or facility or persons therein
- Security measures and surveillance techniques which, if disclosed, would create a risk to the safety or persons, property, electronic data or software
- Information which, if disclosed, would give an advantage to competitors or bidders.
- Information generated by or on behalf of public employers or public employees in connection with:
- Any sexual harassment complain filed with a public employer
- Any grievance filed by or against an individual
- Collective negotiations including documents and statement of strategy o0r negotiating position
- Information which is a communication between a public agency and its insurance carrier, administrative service organization or risk management office
- Certificate of honorable discharge issued by the US government filed with a public agency
- Personal identifying information (social security numbers, credit card numbers, unlisted telephone numbers, drivers' license numbers)
- Certain records of higher education institutions (academic research records, test questions/scoring keys/etc)
- Biotechnology trade secrets
- Limitations to convicts – personal information pertaining to the person's victim or the victim's family, including but not limited to a victim's home address, home telephone number, work or school address, work telephone number, social security account number, medical history or any other identifying information
- Public defender records that relate to the handling of any case
- Privacy Interest – "a public agency has a responsibility and an obligation to safeguard from public access a citizen's personal information with which it has been entrusted when disclosure thereof would violate the citizen's reasonable expectation of privacy."
This is What We Do…Every Single Day
We found an article that pretty much sums up what we do on a daily basis to build an internet profile report for our clients. Not only does this illustrate perfectly how we build the bigger picture for you, but it also demonstrates the rewards (and potential harm) that social media has in our daily lives.
Joe Stephenson of PropertyCasualty360 tells the story of his walk around CalTech campus located in Pasadena, California where he stumbled upon a college ID on the ground. With limited time to try to locate the ID's owner, and realizing that the ID actually belonged to a student at another local college, he figured he could conduct a little search to try and develop an address so he could politely drop the lost ID in the mail and it would find its way home in the student's mailbox.
But what Joe Stephenson found was not what he was expecting. This girl's entire life was plastered all over the internet.
"Mind you, this is a very bright and intelligent young woman, but like most her age she lacks a clear understanding of how the internet can be used – and this is from someone who has been essentially raised during this technological age. Good for those of us fighting evil but bad, very bad, when evil is searching for a target," proclaims Stephenson.
By conducting one quick Google search on his PHONE (no utilization of databases or paid sites), using the only information that he knew about her (her name, the college she attends, and her picture), Joe uncovered the following information about the unsuspecting student:
Her studies: projected graduation year, her approximate age, what she studied, who her professor was, where she would likely be on campus, and more photos. He knew her aspirations, future projects, and read a technical paper she wrote. Ok…some basic research, but a bunch of new avenues to explore.
After that quick Google search which uncovered some unique photos of the student, Stephenson took to the Images tab in Google and found:
She likes yoga (he was able to see where and what time), she likes beer, prefers dogs over cats, prefers a specific airline, she is from a city in Northern California, she was the editor of her high school yearbook in said city, she lived locally, and she owned a Prius and/or a Honda (both license plates were pictured in a photo).
She had just returned from a trip to Australia this past July (specifically in Sydney, Australia on July 5th).
She also included a picture of her drivers license in one of the photos she posted!
Stephenson said, "California is one of the strictest states regarding the disclosure of DMV data and PII (Personally Identifiable Information) and this young woman is giving it away to everyone! I didn't have a specific physical address, but I did have her name, date of birth, driver's license number, school information, vehicle info, hometown and high school. Finding her mother's maiden name would only have been a few more clicks away and then I'm making my own Visa cards! Skip going to her home and breaking in and risk getting caught – this guy just became an identity thief!"
We apply these techniques to our claims investigations every day. And as scary as it may be, there are people out there who don't realize how dangerous it may be to post their personal information online and on social media…but they do it anyway (good for us). If the information is out there, we will find it!
Stephenson could not have wrapped this article up with a better statement: "Take what you want from this research example, but do not ignore the importance of using the internet or making it a mandatory resource during investigations."
New Jersey Woman Pleads Guilty to Submitting $500K in Fraudulent Med Claims
According to Kathleen Hopkins of the Asbury Park Press, 40-year-old Middletown resident, Donna Dzienisewski, plead guilty to healthcare claims fraud last month, admitting that she submitted over $500,000 in fraudulent insurance claims for medical procedures she never received.
Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman and acting Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Ronald Chillemi stated in a news release that Dzienisewski admitted to Superior Court Judge Anthony J. Mellaci Jr. that between March 18, 2011 and March 12, 2013, 107 claims were submitted to Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey for approximately $502,740 in healthcare expenses, including 107 doctor visits.
However, an investigation launched after Dzienisewski was paid $141,126 by HBCBS of NJ. As the rest of her claims were pending, investigators determined that she had only incurred six doctor visits between March 18, 2011 and March 12, 2013. The expenses for those visits should have totaled $2,640, according to the news release. But for those particular visits, Dzienisewski claimed the expenses totaled $8,640.
The sentencing hearing is scheduled for February 6, 2015. Dzienisewski's plea deal saved her from spending up to 10 years in prison. As part of the plea bargain, the state will recommend a five-year sentence, repayment of $10,000 in restitution, and a civil consent judgment totaling $50,000.
Since most of the money Dzienisewski collected from the insurer has been spent, the civil consent judgment will place a lien on her assets and will ensure that if she ever stumbles upon some money, it can be recovered.
Brad Culpepper, Former NFL Player, Competed on "Survivor", Sparked Workers Comp Fraud Suit
Adam Walser of ABC7 News Denver reported last month that Brad Culpepper, former defensive tackle in the NFL, has been accused of workers compensation fraud after appearing on the popular reality show, "Survivor" with his wife.
Culpepper's career shifted from football player, to personal injury attorney, to reality TV competitor in 2013.
What sparked the accusations? According to ABC7 News Denver, "In 2010, Culpepper filed a workers comp claim in California, where there was no statute of limitations and any player who had ever played a game in the state was eligible to file." After Culpepper's claim was filed, California legislators have since changed the law to permit players of teams based in California to file claims.
The NFL Players Association advised former players to file claims, and the NFL and their insurers have paid out hundreds of millions of dollars.
According to Christopher Fusco, an attorney who happens to represent insurance companies while writing a blog featuring legal issues in sports, says "I think that he's a person they'd like to make an example out of."
Insurers for the NFL have filed a lawsuit, noting that Culpepper was declared 89% disabled in 2010 and settled his claim for $175,000, a mere 2 years before earning a black belt in mixed martial arts in 2012 and 3 years before appearing on "Survivor" with his wife, Monica in 2013. The suit also highlights that Culpepper claimed he lost quality of life. Culpepper told doctors that "pain interfered with his daily activities, concentration and thinking a lot, or most of the time."
"He said he can't do recreational activities," states Fusco. "He's limited in what he can do, he has pains every day of the year. And now he's living on a desert island and he's swimming and killing fish with his hands and eating bamboo, so that's going to upset the insurer."
Culpepper's attorney, Scott Shutzman, is planning on asking the court to throw out the case, as his client was legitimately injured and he should have been awarded compensation. "There were injuries that were confirmed by no less than 14 or 15 MRI's, various x-rays, legions of doctors," states Shutzman. His attorney feels Culpepper had answered all questions honestly.
Shutzman also argues that, "there's nothing that I've seen that says an 89 percent disability rating says you can't be on a TV show, or do an MMA workout."
Also worth mentioning, according to ABC7 News Denver, is that "Culpepper was the lead plaintiff in the recent NFL brain jury lawsuit, which was tentatively settled for $765 million."
2012′s Top 10 Workers Comp Fraud Cases Cost America a Whopping $97 Million
Employees, employers, and healthcare providers alike commit workers compensation fraud. Below, a Texas Workers Compensation Blog put together a comprised list of the top 10 workers compensation fraud cases in the year 2012, which cost America $97,446,500 (making it much easier to understand how insurance fraud costs us BILLIONS each year).
1. "Operation Dirty Money" (Florida)
Owner of the Oto Group, Inc. and 10 Shell companies, Hugo Rodriguez, along with seven accomplices, shafted over $70 million in undeclared payroll using several different money services. Rodriguez avoided paying workers' compensation premiums and coverage using his 10 Shell companies, while scamming legitimate businesses and putting the lives of countless employees at risk.
2. 41,247 Private Employers Failed to Report Payroll Data (Ohio)
41,247 private businesses/companies in Ohio violated state law by failing to report and pay workers' compensation premiums, which totaled approximately $5.6 million. And the remaining businesses that actually paid their premiums? Their costs were raised.
3. Employee Leasing Companies…too Good to be True? (Texas)
Texas based company, Jackson Brothers Hot Oil Service, decided to hire a staffing agency back in 1999 to funnel in some temporary workers. The staffing agency was required to purchase workers' compensation for the workers they provided and took out a $4,100 policy. When one of the agency's workers was severely injured from an explosion, the agency declined to pay the medical bills that ensued. The injured employee and the Jackson Brothers sued the staffing agency for fraud and won $4,466,500 in 2012.
4. Business Owner Under-Reports Payroll by $3.5 Million (California)
Construction business owner, George Osumii, lied to the State Compensation Insurance Fund by under-reporting his employee payroll by $3.5 million from the years 2001 to 2006. Osumii avoided paying $814,000 in premiums.
5. Roofing Company and Owners Sentenced for Labor Violations (Massachusetts)
Newton Contracting Company, Inc and its owners labeled half of their employees as subcontractors (even though they weren't) and concealed over $3.4 million worth of payroll during annual audits. The Massachusetts Insurance Fraud Bureau discovered the fraud.
6. Like Father, Like Son (California)
Business owner, Steven Morales, hid his payroll to avoid paying workers compensation premiums that totaled approximately $3.1 million. Morales was convicted and sentenced to seven years in prison. Morales' son Brian was also convicted and sentenced to four years in prison.
7. Construction Company President Accused of Payroll Fraud (Florida)
The president of Navarre Industries, Inc., Randall Seltzer, was charged with workers' compensation fraud (among several other felony counts) for under-reporting payroll to his insurer according to an investigation conducted by Florida's Department of Financial Services Division of Insurance Fraud. Seltzer is facing up to 30 years in prison and restitution payments totaling over $2.9 million.
8. Fake Business Owner Fabricated Insurance Certificates (Florida)
Yucet Batista focused his entrepreneurial efforts in creating a bogus company, obtained workers' compensation benefits, and "rented" the benefits to subcontractors for a fee. Batista helped the uninsured subcontractors avoid paying $2.1 million in premiums by providing more than 250 fraudulent certificates of insurance.
9. 12 Audits Uncovered $1.2 Million in Workers' Compensation Violations (Massachusetts)
The Boston Marriot renovation project was enormous, and so were the violations of unreported wages.
Between seven companies, there were $584,249.00 in misclassified 1099 wages and $584,287 in unreported W-2 earnings, totaling $1,171,536.00. Six of these companies registered workers as contractors instead of employees.
10. Owners of Historic Inn Face Fraud Charges (California)
Sanjiv and Neelam Kakkar, owners of historic Brookdale Inn and Spa, are facing charges for falsifying wage information to their insurer to lower insurance premiums. Over a several year period, the Kakkar's paid approximately $800,000 less in premiums than they should have.
New Jersey Man Indicted in Carjacking Insurance Plot
According to the acting Attorney General, John Hoffman, 42-year-old Maurice Douglas of East Orange, NJ has been charged with insurance fraud, attempted theft by deception and false reports to law enforcement last month.
NBC Philadelphia reported that Douglas claimed he was carjacked in March of 2014 by two men, one with an assault rifle, who "stole his 2007 Mercedes S-550 as he exited the vehicle at his house." Douglas also noted that one of the alleged carjackers robbed him of his cell phone, and one other vehicle was used in the escape.
Douglas alerted the East Orange police that same day, along with his insurer in an attempt to collect approximately $38,500.
Police found Douglas' 2007 Mercedes in an abandoned lot the next day. According to NBC Philadelphia, the car had suffered significant damage with "its headlights and taillights stripped with evident damage to its body and windshield."
Douglas revealed the alleged carjackers' escape route in which police retrieved time- and date-stamped surveillance video. The ensuing investigation showed no video evidence of Douglas' Mercedes or the other getaway car taking the alleged escape route.
If Douglas is convicted on all counts, he could be facing 17 years in prison.


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After a rather intense period of new simulations and versions, Juong Een (Kate) Lee and I have now resubmitted our paper on (some) importance sampling schemes for evidence approximation in mixture models to Bayesian Analysis. There is no fundamental change in the new version but rather a more detailed description of what those importance schemes mean in practice. The original idea in the paper is to improve upon the Rao-Blackwellisation solution proposed by Berkoff et al. (2002) and later by Marin et al. (2005) to avoid the impact of label switching on Chib's formula. The Rao-Blackwellisation consists in averaging over all permutations of the labels while the improvement relies on the elimination of useless permutations, namely those that produce a negligible conditional density in Chib's (candidate's) formula. While the improvement implies truncated the overall sum and hence induces a potential bias (which was the concern of one referee), the determination of the irrelevant permutations after relabelling next to a single mode does not appear to cause any bias, while reducing the computational overload. Referees also made us aware of many recent proposals that conduct to different evidence approximations, albeit not directly related with our purpose. (One was Rodrigues and Walker, 2014, discussed and commented in a recent post.)
Archive for Rao-Blackwellisation
importance sampling schemes for evidence approximation [revised]Posted in Statistics, University life with tags Andrew Gelman, candidate approximation, Chib's approximation, evidence, finite mixtures, label switching, permutations, Rao-Blackwellisation on November 18, 2014 by xi'an
density normalization for MCMC algorithmsPosted in Statistics, University life with tags harmonic mean estimator, importance sampling, Laplace approximation, MCMC, MCQMC, Monte Carlo Statistical Methods, normalising constant, Rao-Blackwellisation, untractable normalizing constant on November 6, 2014 by xi'an
Another paper addressing the estimation of the normalising constant and the wealth of available solutions just came out on arXiv, with the full title of "Target density normalization for Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms", written by Allen Caldwell and Chang Liu. (I became aware of it by courtesy of Ewan Cameron, as it appeared in the physics section of arXiv. It is actually a wee bit annoying that papers in the subcategory "Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability" of physics do not get an automated reposting on the statistics lists…)
In this paper, the authors compare three approaches to the problem of finding
when the density f is unormalised, i.e., in more formal terms, when f is proportional to a probability density (and available):
- an "arithmetic mean", which is an importance sampler based on (a) reducing the integration volume to a neighbourhood ω of the global mode. This neighbourhood is chosen as an hypercube and the importance function turns out to be the uniform over this hypercube. The corresponding estimator is then a rescaled version of the average of f over uniform simulations in ω.
- an "harmonic mean", of all choices!, with again an integration over the neighbourhood ω of the global mode in order to avoid the almost sure infinite variance of harmonic mean estimators.
- a Laplace approximation, using the target at the mode and the Hessian at the mode as well.
The paper then goes to comparing those three solutions on a few examples, demonstrating how the diameter of the hypercube can be calibrated towards a minimum (estimated) uncertainty. The rather anticlimactic conclusion is that the arithmetic mean is the most reliable solution as harmonic means may fail in larger dimension and more importantly fail to signal its failure, while Laplace approximations only approximate well quasi-Gaussian densities…
What I find most interesting in this paper is the idea of using only one part of the integration space to compute the integral, even though it is not exactly new. Focussing on a specific region ω has pros and cons, the pros being that the reduction to a modal region reduces needs for absolute MCMC convergence and helps in selecting alternative proposals and also prevents from the worst consequences of using a dreaded harmonic mean, the cons being that the region needs be well-identified, which means requirements on the MCMC kernel, and that the estimate is a product of two estimates, the frequency being driven by a Binomial noise. I also like very much the idea of calibrating the diameter Δof the hypercube ex-post by estimating the uncertainty.
As an aside, the paper mentions most of the alternative solutions I just presented in my Monte Carlo graduate course two days ago (like nested or bridge or Rao-Blackwellised sampling, including our proposal with Darren Wraith), but dismisses them as not "directly applicable in an MCMC setting", i.e., without modifying this setting. I unsurprisingly dispute this labelling, both because something like the Laplace approximation requires extra-work on the MCMC output (and once done this work can lead to advanced Laplace methods like INLA) and because other methods could be considered as well (for instance, bridge sampling over several hypercubes). As shown in the recent paper by Mathieu Gerber and Nicolas Chopin (soon to be discussed at the RSS!), MCqMC has also become a feasible alternative that would compete well with the methods studied in this paper.
Overall, this is a paper that comes in a long list of papers on constant approximations. I do not find the Markov chain of MCMC aspect particularly compelling or specific, once the effective sample size is accounted for. It would be nice to find generic ways of optimising the visit to the hypercube ω and to estimate efficiently the weight of ω. The comparison is solely run over examples, but they all rely on a proper characterisation of the hypercube and the ability to simulate efficiently f over that hypercube.
Combining Particle MCMC with Rao-Blackwellized Monte Carlo Data AssociationPosted in Books, Statistics, University life with tags -Blackwellized Monte Carlo Data Association, bear, data association, Finland, MCMC, particle Gibbs sampler, pMCMC, prior-posterior discrepancy, Rao-Blackwellisation, simulation, target tracking, tiger, Western Ghats on October 10, 2014 by xi'an
This recently arXived paper by Juho Kokkala and Simo Särkkä mixes a whole lot of interesting topics, from particle MCMC and Rao-Blackwellisation to particle filters, Kalman filters, and even bear population estimation. The starting setup is the state-space hidden process models where particle filters are of use. And where Andrieu, Doucet and Hollenstein (2010) introduced their particle MCMC algorithms. Rao-Blackwellisation steps have been proposed in this setup in the original paper, as well as in the ensuing discussion, like recycling rejected parameters and associated particles. The beginning of the paper is a review of the literature in this area, in particular of the Rao-Blackwellized Monte Carlo Data Association algorithm developed by Särkkä et al. (2007), of which I was not aware previously. (I alas have not followed closely enough the filtering literature in the past years.) Targets evolve independently according to Gaussian dynamics.
In the description of the model (Section 3), I feel there are prerequisites on the model I did not have (and did not check in Särkkä et al., 2007), like the meaning of targets and measurements: it seems the model assumes each measurement corresponds to a given target. More details or an example would have helped. The extension against the existing appears to be the (major) step of including unknown parameters. Due to my lack of expertise in the domain, I have no notion of the existence of similar proposals in the literature, but handling unknown parameters is definitely of direct relevance for the statistical analysis of such problems!
The simulation experiment based on an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model is somewhat anticlimactic in that the posterior on the mean reversion rate is essentially the prior, conveniently centred at the true value, while the others remain quite wide. It may be that the experiment was too ambitious in selecting 30 simultaneous targets with only a total of 150 observations. Without highly informative priors, my beotian reaction is to doubt the feasibility of the inference. In the case of the Finnish bear study, the huge discrepancy between priors and posteriors, as well as the significant difference between the forestry expert estimations and the model predictions should be discussed, if not addressed, possibly via a simulation using the posteriors as priors. Or maybe using a hierarchical Bayes model to gather a time-wise coherence in the number of bear families. (I wonder if this technique would apply to the type of data gathered by Mohan Delampady on the West Ghats tigers…)
Overall, I am slightly intrigued by the practice of running MCMC chains in parallel and merging the outcomes with no further processing. This assumes a lot in terms of convergence and mixing on all the chains. However, convergence is never directly addressed in the paper.
efficient exploration of multi-modal posterior distributionsPosted in Books, Statistics, University life with tags acceptance probability, Metropolis-Hastings algorithms, multimodal target, population Monte Carlo, Rao-Blackwellisation on September 1, 2014 by xi'an
The title of this recent arXival had potential appeal, however the proposal ends up being rather straightforward and hence anti-climactic! The paper by Hu, Hendry and Heng proposes to run a mixture of proposals centred at the various modes of the target for an efficient exploration. This is a correct MCMC algorithm, granted!, but the requirement to know beforehand all the modes to be explored is self-defeating, since the major issue with MCMC is about modes that are omitted from the exploration and remain undetected throughout the simulation… As provided, this is a standard MCMC algorithm with no adaptive feature and I would rather suggest our population Monte Carlo version, given the available information. Another connection with population Monte Carlo is that I think the performances would improve by Rao-Blackwellising the acceptance rate, i.e. removing the conditioning on the (ancillary) component of the index. For PMC we proved that using the mixture proposal in the ratio led to an ideally minimal variance estimate and I do not see why randomising the acceptance ratio in the current case would bring any improvement.
recycling accept-reject rejectionsPosted in Statistics, University life with tags accept-reject algorithm, arXiv, auxiliary variable, Data augmentation, George Casella, intractable likelihood, Monte Carlo Statistical Methods, Rao-Blackwellisation, recycling, untractable normalizing constant on July 1, 2014 by xi'an
Vinayak Rao, Lizhen Lin and David Dunson just arXived a paper which proposes anew technique to handle intractable normalising constants. And which exact title is Data augmentation for models based on rejection sampling. (Paper that I read in the morning plane to B'ham, since this is one of my weeks in Warwick.) The central idea therein is that, if the sample density (aka likelihood) satisfies
where all terms but p are known in closed form, then completion by the rejected values of an hypothetical accept-reject algorithm−hypothetical in the sense that the data does not have to be produced by an accept-reject scheme but simply the above domination condition to hold−allows for a data augmentation scheme. Without requiring the missing normalising constant. Since the completed likelihood is
A closed-form, if not necessarily congenial, function.
Now this is quite a different use of the "rejected values" from the accept reject algorithm when compared with our 1996 Biometrika paper on the Rao-Blackwellisation of accept-reject schemes (which, still, could have been mentioned there… Or Section 4.2 of Monte Carlo Statistical Methods. Rather than re-deriving the joint density of the augmented sample, "accepted+rejected".)
It is a neat idea in that it completely bypasses the approximation of the normalising constant. And avoids the somewhat delicate tuning of the auxiliary solution of Moller et al. (2006) The difficulty with this algorithm is however in finding an upper bound M on the unnormalised density f that is
- in closed form;
- with a manageable and tight enough "constant" M;
- compatible with running a posterior simulation conditional on the added rejections.
The paper seems to assume further that the bound M is independent from the current parameter value θ, at least as suggested by the notation (and Theorem 2), but this is not in the least necessary for the validation of the formal algorithm. Such a constraint would pull M higher, hence reducing the efficiency of the method. Actually the matrix Langevin distribution considered in the first example involves a bound that depends on the parameter κ.
The paper includes a result (Theorem 2) on the uniform ergodicity that relies on heavy assumptions on the proposal distribution. And a rather surprising one, namely that the probability of rejection is bounded from below, i.e. calling for a less efficient proposal. Now it seems to me that a uniform ergodicity result holds as well when the probability of acceptance is bounded from below since, then, the event when no rejection occurs constitutes an atom from the augmented Markov chain viewpoint. There therefore occurs a renewal each time the rejected variable set ϒ is empty, and ergodicity ensues (Robert, 1995, Statistical Science).
Note also that, despite the opposition raised by the authors, the method per se does constitute a pseudo-marginal technique à la Andrieu-Roberts (2009) since the independent completion by the (pseudo) rejected variables produces an unbiased estimator of the likelihood. It would thus be of interest to see how the recent evaluation tools of Andrieu and Vihola can assess the loss in efficiency induced by this estimation of the likelihood.
Maybe some further experimental evidence tomorrow…
[more] parallel MCMCPosted in Books, Mountains with tags Banff, batch sampling, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, Duke University, embarassingly parallel, Markov chain Monte Carlo, partition, partitioned sampling, Rao-Blackwellisation, split chain, Voronoi tesselation on April 3, 2014 by xi'an
Scott Schmidler and his Ph.D. student Douglas VanDerwerken have arXived a paper on parallel MCMC the very day I left for Chamonix, prior to MCMSki IV, so it is no wonder I missed it at the time. This work is somewhat in the spirit of the parallel papers Scott et al.'s consensus Bayes, Neiswanger et al.'s embarrassingly parallel MCMC, Wang and Dunson's Weierstrassed MCMC (and even White et al.'s parallel ABC), namely that the computation of the likelihood can be broken into batches and MCMC run over those batches independently. In their short survey of previous works on parallelization, VanDerwerken and Schmidler overlooked our neat (!) JCGS Rao-Blackwellisation with Pierre Jacob and Murray Smith, maybe because it sounds more like post-processing than genuine parallelization (in that it does not speed up the convergence of the chain but rather improves the Monte Carlo usages one can make of this chain), maybe because they did not know of it.
"This approach has two shortcomings: first, it requires a number of independent simulations, and thus processors, equal to the size of the partition; this may grow exponentially in dim(Θ). Second, the rejection often needed for the restriction doesn't permit easy evaluation of transition kernel densities, required below. In addition, estimating the relative weights wi with which they should be combined requires care." (p.3)
The idea of the authors is to replace an exploration of the whole space operated via a single Markov chain (or by parallel chains acting independently which all have to "converge") with parallel and independent explorations of parts of the space by separate Markov chains. "Small is beautiful": it takes a shorter while to explore each set of the partition, hence to converge, and, more importantly, each chain can work in parallel to the others. More specifically, given a partition of the space, into sets Ai with posterior weights wi, parallel chains are associated with targets equal to the original target restricted to those Ai's. This is therefore an MCMC version of partitioned sampling. With regard to the shortcomings listed in the quote above, the authors consider that there does not need to be a bijection between the partition sets and the chains, in that a chain can move across partitions and thus contribute to several integral evaluations simultaneously. I am a bit worried about this argument since it amounts to getting a random number of simulations within each partition set Ai. In my (maybe biased) perception of partitioned sampling, this sounds somewhat counter-productive, as it increases the variance of the overall estimator. (Of course, not restricting a chain to a given partition set Ai has the incentive of avoiding a possibly massive amount of rejection steps. It is however unclear (a) whether or not it impacts ergodicity (it all depends on the way the chain is constructed, i.e. against which target(s)…) as it could lead to an over-representation of some boundaries and (b) whether or not it improves the overall convergence properties of the chain(s).)
"The approach presented here represents a solution to this problem which can completely remove the waiting times for crossing between modes, leaving only the relatively short within-mode equilibration times." (p.4)
A more delicate issue with the partitioned MCMC approach (in my opinion!) stands with the partitioning. Indeed, in a complex and high-dimension model, the construction of the appropriate partition is a challenge in itself as we often have no prior idea where the modal areas are. Waiting for a correct exploration of the modes is indeed faster than waiting for crossing between modes, provided all modes are represented and the chain for each partition set Ai has enough energy to explore this set. It actually sounds (slightly?) unlikely that a target with huge gaps between modes will see a considerable improvement from the partioned version when the partition sets Ai are selected on the go, because some of the boundaries between the partition sets may be hard to reach with a off-the-shelf proposal. (Obviously, the second part of the method on the adaptive construction of partitions is yet in the writing and I am looking forward its aXival!)
Furthermore, as noted by Pierre Jacob (of Statisfaction fame!), the adaptive construction of the partition has a lot in common with Wang-Landau schemes. Which goal is to produce a flat histogram proposal from the current exploration of the state space. Connections with Atchadé's and Liu's (2010, Statistical Sinica) extension of the original Wang-Landau algorithm could have been spelled out. Esp. as the Voronoï tessellation construct seems quite innovative in this respect.
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Barker (from the lovely city of Dunedin) and Link published a paper in the American Statistician last September that I missed, as I missed their earlier email about the paper since it arrived The Day After… The paper is about a new specification of RJMCMC, almost twenty years after Peter Green's (1995) introduction of the method. The authors use the notion of a palette, "from which all model specific parameters can be calculated" (in a deterministic way). One can see the palette ψ as an intermediary step in the move between two models. This reduces the number of bijections, if not the construction of the dreaded Jacobians!, but forces the construction of pseudo-priors on the unessential parts of ψ for every model. Because the dimension of ψ is fixed, a Gibbs sampling interleaving model index and palette value is then implementable. The conditional of the model index given the palette is available provided there are not too many models under competitions, with the probabilities recyclable towards a Rao-Blackwell approximation of the model probability. I wonder at whether or not another Rao-Blackwellisation is possible, namely to draw from all the simulated palettes a sample for the parameter of an arbitrarily chosen model.


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By Larry Fitzmaurice on February 10, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. EST
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Welcome to 5-10-15-20, where we talk to artists about the music they loved at five-year interval points in their lives. Maybe we'll get a detailed roadmap of how their tastes and passions helped make them who they are. Maybe we'll just learn that they really liked hearing the "The Greatest American Hero" theme song over and over when they were kids. Either way, it'll be fun.
For this edition, we checked in with 34-year-old Stuart Braithwaite of post rockers Mogwai. The band's new album, Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will-- featuring the track "San Pedro", above-- is out February 15 on Sub Pop and a day before in Europe via Rock Action.
Battles Talk Lineup Change, New Album
By Ryan Dombal on February 9, 2011 at 10:50 a.m. EST
From left to right: Ian Williams, John Stanier, Dave Konopka. Photo by Stefano Giovannini; photo below courtesy of Warp Records.
When I spoke with berserking Battles drummer John Stanier about the group's then-in-progress second album in June 2009, he said: "It would take years for us to finish if we had unlimited time to work on it." Fast-forward almost two years and the experimental rockers are finally finished with their follow-up to 2007's much-loved Mirrored. The as-yet-untitled record is tentatively due in early summer on Warp. But its gestation didn't come without setbacks-- in the middle of a studio session last summer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Tyondai Braxton left the band.
On a slushy day last week, I met with Battles guitarist-bassist Dave Konopka at a classy, dark-wooded restaurant in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn to chat about the lineup change and the now-trio's new material. Recorded at the same Rhode Island studio (Machines With Magnets) and with the same engineers (Keith Souza and Seth Manchester) as Mirrored, the new album really came together in the months after Braxton's departure. And while it includes reworked tracks written when he was still in the band, Braxton is not featured on the record at all.
To help fill Braxton's absence, Konopka, Stanier, and multi-instrumentalist Ian Williams asked a few guests, including Boredom's Eye, to lend vocals to some of the new songs. The final result feels like "more of an accomplishment than Mirrored" partly due to its stressful creation, Konopka said.
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Okkervil River are currently readying their latest LP, I Am Very Far, for a May 10 release via Jagjaguwar. Today, they put out the "Mermaid" 12" single, which features two I Am Very Far B-sides. Listen to the title track up above.
We recently talked with Okkervil River leader Will Sheff about the arduous process of recording I Am Very Far, making "uncomfortable" art, and the struggle of retaining mystery in songwriting. The album's cover and our interview are after the jump:
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On April 12, Rhymesayers will release The Family Sign, the new album from the long-running Minneapolis rap group Atmosphere. It's their first proper album since 2008's When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold, but Atmosphere have kept their huge cult fanbase happy in the years since by releasing a steady stream of side projects and other releases, touring relentlessly, and curating Soundset, their own annual Minnesota rap festival. Later this month, they'll even tour some of the smaller towns in their home state. We recently spoke with the group's 38-year-old MC, Slug, about the new album, his spiritual kinship with Prince and the Replacements, and why his songs may not be quite as autobiographical as they seem.
Director's Cut: No Age: "Fever Dreaming"
By Ryan Dombal on February 4, 2011 at 5:20 p.m. EST
From Liars' "Plaster Casts of Everything" to Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Turn Into", great music videos are bursts of sound and vision that leave an indelible impression. Director's Cut is a Pitchfork News feature in which we chat with music video directors about their creations. The men and women behind the camera are often overlooked in today's YouTube era, but this feature aims to highlight their hard work while showcasing the best videos currently linking around the Internet. A little behind-the-scenes dirt couldn't hurt, too.
Much of director Patrick Daughters' work is marked by an unwavering focus. Instead of stuffing his videos with a bounty of cuts and concepts, he often hits on one (usually great) idea and executes it with perfection. With Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Maps", he highlighted Karen O's performance, while the creepy video for Depeche Mode's "Wrong" made the most of a guy trapped in a moving car. And while the worlds he creates can be harrowing or whimsical, they're always just a little bit off.
No Age's "Fever Dreaming" is no different. On the surface, the video seems pedestrian enough, just the band hanging out in a nicely furnished warehouse space. But as the camera slowly zooms in, the frame squeezes all the stuff inside of it, too. And then the edge of the frame takes on even more destructive characteristics. The video looks like another one-take marvel á la Daughters' clip for Feist's "1234" but, as we found out, it wasn't exactly that simple.
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Pains of Being Pure at Heart: "Belong" (via SoundCloud)
The beginning of "Belong"-- the title track and new single from the Pains of Being Pure at Heart's second album, which is out March 29 via Slumberland-- features the indie-pop band casually jangling along. But it's something of a red herring. Right at the fifteen-second mark, the guitars blitz out louder and harder than anything on their self-titled debut. The gargantuan distortion recalls nothing less than prime-era Smashing Pumpkins, which makes sense considering Belong was produced by Flood and mixed by Alan Moulder, aka the guys who helped craft the sounds of Pumpkins classics like Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, not to mention records by My Bloody Valentine, Nine Inch Nails, U2, PJ Harvey, Depeche Mode, and many more. Basically, if you grew up in the 90s, your ears are subconsciously attuned the studio wizardry of Flood and Alan Moulder.
We recently met up with the band at the delightfully cheesy grilled-meats chain Dallas BBQ in downtown Manhattan. As lead singer Kip Berman slurped a red, white, and blue frozen drink called the "Firecracker," he and the rest of the group-- that's keyboardist Peggy Wang, bassist Alex Naidus, and drummer Kurt Feldman-- talked about their unlikely studio gurus in semi-shocked tones. The chummy foursome were more than happy to chat about the movie Clueless and something called a Travel Pussy, too.
Click on for the Q&A, the cover art for Belong, and Pains' spring tour dates, including a trek with Twin Shadow:
Rising: Colin Stetson
By Ryan Dombal on February 3, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. EST
Colin Stetson: "Judges" (via SoundCloud)
On the surface, Colin Stetson's second album, New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges, is a solo saxophone record. But across the LP, he turns the instrument into its own weirdo one-man band, using pad-hitting sounds as percussion and even singing through the horn while he's playing quick-trigger figures. It's disorienting and engrossing, somewhere between Ornette Coleman and Tom Waits (with whom Stetson has collaborated).
But the album seems even more unusual once you learn Stetson performed almost the whole thing by himself without overdubs or loops, with many songs nailed on their first recorded take. It's not just an artistic feat but a physical one as well.
Now 35, Stetson grew up in Michigan and currently resides in Montreal. Originally turned on to the alto sax by Men at Work's "Who Can It Be Now?", he started playing at 10. He went on to compete as a classical performer in high school before getting into more adventurous fare like John Zorn and Dewey Redman while studying at the University of Michigan. Since then, he's opened for Arcade Fire and the National, and played with Waits, Laurie Anderson (who provides guest vocals on Judges), and TV on the Radio. He's planning on recording the final album in his New History Warfare trilogy this spring before rehearsing and going on tour with Bon Iver later in the year.
Until then, though, he's concentrating on Judges, which is out February 22 on Constellation. Click on to read our Q&A with Stetson about his one-of-a-kind style and The Lost Boys:
5-10-15-20: Earth's Dylan Carlson
By Tom Breihan on February 2, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. EST
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By Tom Breihan on February 1, 2011 at 2:50 p.m. EST
Well Spent Youth is the first studio album from electronic producer Rajko Müller, better known as Isolée, since 2005's minimal techno benchmark We Are Monster. The album is out February 28 (pushed back from February 7) now on DJ Koze's Pampa imprint, and you can listen to the whole album after the jump. We've also got Isolée's tour dates below.
tUnE-yArDs Announces New Album, Tour
By Ryan Dombal on February 1, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. EST
Photo on front page and below by Anna M Campbell; album art by Alex Chitty
Innovative songstress Merrill Garbus, aka tUnE-yArDs, caught ears with her beyond-lo-fi debut album, 2009's BiRd-BrAiNs. But the album's very homemade production could be a turn-off. "If you don't have a tolerance for cut-rate sonics-- and this isn't even the warm analog stuff-- forget about it," wrote Mark Richardson in his review. "But if you do, the best songs on BiRd-BrAiNs can sneak up on you."
Still, it wasn't until many saw Garbus opening for similarly eccentric bands like Dirty Projectors over the last couple years that the full breadth of her talent became apparent. Joined only by bassist Nate Brenner, Garbus created mini-cacophonies out of looping her own big, bad voice to thrilling effect. tUnE-yArDs' forthcoming LP, w h o k i l l, out April 19 on 4AD, aims to clean up her sound a bit while maintaining the rawness that made BiRd-BrAiNs so lovable.
From what we've heard on a four-track preview, w h o k i l l manages to mix the upbeat exuberance of Vampire Weekend with some of Jamie Lidell's oddball funk and maybe even a few Bobby McFerrin vocal tricks. We recently spoke with Garbus about the new record-- click on for the Q&A as well as tUnE-yArDs' new North American spring tour dates:
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Here's another handset to keep an eye on over the coming weeks – Samsung Galaxy Mega.
Do you think that other smartphones are small and puny? Do you have large hands? Large pockets? Carry around with you a large bag?
Answered "yes' to one or more of these questions? The Galaxy Mega may be for you!
It's clear that Samsung is carpet-bombing the marker with handsets in a variety of sizes, and this 6.3-inch phablet (cross between a phone and a tablet) is at the high end for what's possible – and plausible – for a smartphone in terms of screen size.
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All-22 look at the 'Sprint' route to beat the Bucs. Matt Bowen
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When I watch tape throughout the week there are always a handful of plays that would be ideal for a coaching clinic. Think of opportunities to talk technique, scheme, alignments, formations, etc. One of those plays coming off the Week 14 NFL schedule was Nick Foles' game winning TD pass to Jeremy Maclin that gave the Eagles their first win in months down in Tampa.
Using the All-22 cut ups, let's break this down, talk some coaching points and focus on the Flat-7 route off of sprint action.
Eagles vs. Bucs
Personnel: Posse (3WR-1TE-1RB)
Formation: Doubles Slot (Exchange)
Route: (Sprint) Flat-7
Defensive Scheme: Combo-Man
- What is the Eagles' "Gotta Have It Play?" From a defensive perspective, you have to know your opponent—especially in crucial game situations. In Andy Reid's playbook that means a Hi-Lo combination (Hi-Lo Crossers, Hi-Lo Opposite, Hi-Lo Triple-In) or the Sprint game (Flat-7/Flat-Curl).
- Two pre-snap keys to look at. With an "Exchange" alignment (No.2 on the ball), this is an automatic alert to the Flat-7 (corner) concept with the slot WR on the 7 cut. And don't forget about the TE (orange). The Eagles will use an off-set back in a "chowed' alignment (outside leg of the tackle) to seal the edge in the sprint game, but here they set the TE off the ball to replace the RB in protection. It might seem small, but these two keys can give you a jump on the play when you have to get a stop and win the game.
- I'm calling this "Combo-Man" from the Bucs because of the "bracket" looks. To the open (weak) side of the formation, Tampa is using a "cut" call vs. the X receiver with a "slice" vs. the slot. Think 2-on-1 coverage. Smart call when you want to take the slot out of the play, however that leaves the closed (strong) side CB in a "solo" technique: man-to-man with no help.
- The closed side CB is already beat vs. Maclin. Why? Look at his hips. When you open your hips in a press-alignment at the snap (called "opening the gate"), the WR can work off your leverage with a free release. It isn't easy to get a jam vs. a WR that is off the ball, but if you slide your feet and mirror the release you can still impact the initial stem with a re-route.
- Because the CB opened his hips on the release, Maclin can now use a short vertical stem, lean into the DB and then break back to the boundary. And with the Eagles moving the pocket to get Foles on the edge, the rookie QB has a clear throwing lane to target his WR.
- The Eagles have exactly what they want: a WR running an outside breaking concept vs. a CB playing with inside leverage. Get the ball out, secure the catch and get on the plane with a win.
What did we learn?
As a DB in this situation, you have to look for pre-snap keys. Think opponent, personnel, alignment and formation before you even get into your stance. The Eagles under Reid have been running the same concepts for a decade and the routes don't change. Sure, they will add some window dressing to disguise a base concept, but when you see a Doubles Slot formation (with No.2 on the ball), the antenna has to go up. After that? Rely on your technique and play football.
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