Algebraic statistical models

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Authors Mathias Drton, Seth Sullivant

Publication date 11 March 2008

Published in STATISTICA SINICA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0703609

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic statisticscomputational algebraic geometryexponential familymaximum likelihood estimationmodel invariantssingularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gröbner bases; other bases for ideals and modules (e.g., Janet and border bases) (13P10) Computational aspects and applications of commutative rings (13P99) Computational aspects in algebraic geometry (14Q99) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01)

Abstract: Many statistical models are algebraic in that they are defined in terms of polynomial constraints, or in terms of polynomial or rational parametrizations. The parameter spaces of such models are typically semi-algebraic subsets of the parameter space of a reference model with nice properties, such as for example a regular exponential family. This observation leads to the definition of an `algebraic exponential family'. This new definition provides a unified framework for the study of statistical models with algebraic structure. In this paper we review the ingredients to this definition and illustrate in examples how computational algebraic geometry can be used to solve problems arising in statistical inference in algebraic models.

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