Logarithmic Voronoi cells

DOI10.2140/ASTAT.2021.12.75MaRDI QIDQ2032066zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yulia Alexandr, Alexander Heaton

Publication date 16 June 2021

Published in Algebraic Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09431

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic moment maplogarithmic Voronoi cellML degreeMLEnumerical algebraic geometryprobability simplexroot polytopesstatistical modelstatisticsVoronoi cell

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric aspects of numerical algebraic geometry (14Q65) Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40) Point estimation (62F10)

Abstract: We study Voronoi cells in the statistical setting by considering preimages of the maximum likelihood estimator that tessellate an open probability simplex. In general, logarithmic Voronoi cells are convex sets. However, for certain algebraic models, namely finite models, models with ML degree 1, linear models, and log-linear (or toric) models, we show that logarithmic Voronoi cells are polytopes. As a corollary, the algebraic moment map has polytopes for both its fibres and its image, when restricted to the simplex. We also compute non-polytopal logarithmic Voronoi cells using numerical algebraic geometry. Finally, we determine logarithmic Voronoi polytopes for the finite model consisting of all empirical distributions of a fixed sample size. These polytopes are dual to the logarithmic root polytopes of Lie type A, and we characterize their faces.

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