Main effects and interactions in mixed and incomplete data frames

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DOI10.1080/01621459.2019.1623041zbMATH Open1441.62145arXiv1806.09734OpenAlexW2963603703WikidataQ127804282 ScholiaQ127804282MaRDI QIDQ146484FDOQ146484


Authors: Geneviève Robin, Olga Klopp, Julie Josse, Éric Moulines, Robert Tibshirani, Geneviève Robin, Olga Klopp, Julie Josse, Robert Tibshirani, Eric Moulines Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 26 June 2018

Published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A mixed data frame (MDF) is a table collecting categorical, numerical and count observations. The use of MDF is widespread in statistics and the applications are numerous from abundance data in ecology to recommender systems. In many cases, an MDF exhibits simultaneously main effects, such as row, column or group effects and interactions, for which a low-rank model has often been suggested. Although the literature on low-rank approximations is very substantial, with few exceptions, existing methods do not allow to incorporate main effects and interactions while providing statistical guarantees. The present work fills this gap. We propose an estimation method which allows to recover simultaneously the main effects and the interactions. We show that our method is near optimal under conditions which are met in our targeted applications. We also propose an optimization algorithm which provably converges to an optimal solution. Numerical experiments reveal that our method, mimi, performs well when the main effects are sparse and the interaction matrix has low-rank. We also show that mimi compares favorably to existing methods, in particular when the main effects are significantly large compared to the interactions, and when the proportion of missing entries is large. The method is available as an R package on the Comprehensive R Archive Network.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.09734




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