Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Nets of Conics

DOI10.4418/2021.76.2.7MaRDI QIDQ5030922zbMATH OpenFDO

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Publication date 18 February 2022

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08989

zbMATH Keywords

nets of quadricsVeronese surfacelinear spaces of symmetric matricesML-degrees

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Algebraic statistics (62R01) Polynomials, factorization in commutative rings (13P05) Pencils, nets, webs in algebraic geometry (14C21) Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05)

Abstract: We study the problem of maximum likelihood estimation for $3$-dimensional linear spaces of $3imes3$ symmetric matrices from the point of view of algebraic statistics where we view these nets of conics as linear concentration or linear covariance models of Gaussian distributions on $mathbb{R}^3$. In particular, we study the reciprocal surfaces of nets of conics which are rational surfaces in $mathbb{P}^5$. We show that the reciprocal surfaces are projections from the Veronese surface and determine their intersection with the polar nets. This geometry explains the maximum likelihood degrees of these linear models. We compute the reciprocal maximum likelihood degrees. This work is based on Wall's classification of nets of conics from 1977.

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• LinearCovarianceModels.jl
• Macaulay2

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