Logarithmic Voronoi cells for Gaussian models

DOI10.1016/J.JSC.2023.102256MaRDI QIDQ6184178zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yulia Alexandr, Serkan Hoşten

Publication date 5 January 2024

Published in Journal of Symbolic Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01487

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic statisticsGaussian modelsmaximum likelihood degreemaximum likelihood estimationspectrahedra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special varieties (14Mxx) Multivariate analysis (62Hxx) Statistics on algebraic and topological structures (62Rxx)

Abstract: We extend the theory of logarithmic Voronoi cells to Gaussian statistical models. In general, a logarithmic Voronoi cell at a point on a Gaussian model is a convex set contained in its log-normal spectrahedron. We show that for models of ML degree one and linear covariance models the two sets coincide. In particular, they are equal for both directed and undirected graphical models. We introduce decomposition theory of logarithmic Voronoi cells for the latter family. We also study covariance models, for which logarithmic Voronoi cells are, in general, strictly contained in log-normal spectrahedra. We give an explicit description of logarithmic Voronoi cells for the bivariate correlation model and show that they are semi-algebraic sets. Finally, we state a conjecture that logarithmic Voronoi cells for unrestricted correlation models are not semi-algebraic.

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