Miss Nayana Unnipillai
Research Student
Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
Biography
My research focuses on developing methods and software for eliciting expert knowledge as prior distributions in Bayesian statistics, under the supervision of Dr. Fadlalla Elfadaly.
Softwares for Prior Elicitation:
- Elicitation of Univariate Distributions over [0,1] for Binomial Sampling Models
- Eliciting a Standard Dirichlet distribution
- Eliciting a Standard Dirichlet and a Connor-Mosimann Distribution
- Eliciting a Gaussian Copula with different Univariate Marginal Distributions
- Eliciting some generalisations of Dirichlet distributions as priors for Multinomial sampling models
Publications
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Eliciting some generalisations of Dirichlet distribution as priors for Multinomial models (2025)