Posterior graph selection and estimation consistency for high-dimensional Bayesian DAG models

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DOI10.1214/18-AOS1689zbMATH Open1417.62140arXiv1611.01205OpenAlexW2963846915MaRDI QIDQ1731759FDOQ1731759


Authors: Xuan Cao, Kshitij Khare, Malay Ghosh Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 14 March 2019

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Covariance estimation and selection for high-dimensional multivariate datasets is a fundamental problem in modern statistics. Gaussian directed acyclic graph (DAG) models are a popular class of models used for this purpose. Gaussian DAG models introduce sparsity in the Cholesky factor of the inverse covariance matrix, and the sparsity pattern in turn corresponds to specific conditional independence assumptions on the underlying variables. A variety of priors have been developed in recent years for Bayesian inference in DAG models, yet crucial convergence and sparsity selection properties for these models have not been thoroughly investigated. Most of these priors are adaptations or generalizations of the Wishart distribution in the DAG context. In this paper, we consider a flexible and general class of these 'DAG-Wishart' priors with multiple shape parameters. Under mild regularity assumptions, we establish strong graph selection consistency and establish posterior convergence rates for estimation when the number of variables p is allowed to grow at an appropriate sub-exponential rate with the sample size n.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.01205




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