Network inference from grouped observations using Hub Models

DOI10.5705/SS.202016.0397MaRDI QIDQ4626687zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yunpeng Zhao, Charles Weko

Publication date 28 February 2019

Published in STATISTICA SINICA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.03211, https://semanticscholar.org/paper/a7c8c5086cd930f07fe03d35ca54608e0c964e3b

zbMATH Keywords

affiliation networkdream of red chamberexpectation-maximization algorithmhalf weight indexHub Modelssocial network analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factor analysis and principal components; correspondence analysis (62H25) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Applications of statistics to social sciences (62P25) Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30)

Abstract: In medical research, economics, and the social sciences data frequently appear as subsets of a set of objects. Over the past century a number of descriptive statistics have been developed to construct network structure from such data. However, these measures lack a generating mechanism that links the inferred network structure to the observed groups. To address this issue, we propose a model-based approach called the Hub Model which assumes that every observed group has a leader and that the leader has brought together the other members of the group. The performance of Hub Models is demonstrated by simulation studies. We apply this model to infer the relationships among Senators serving in the 110th United States Congress, the characters in a famous 18th century Chinese novel, and the distribution of flora in North America.

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