A class of smooth models satisfying marginal and context specific conditional independencies

DOI10.1016/J.JMVA.2014.01.001MaRDI QIDQ2438630zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. Colombi, A. Forcina

Publication date 6 March 2014

Published in Journal of Multivariate Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.8050

zbMATH Keywords

categorical datamarginal log-linear parameterizationssmooth parameterizations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contingency tables (62H17) Generalized linear models (logistic models) (62J12)

Abstract: We study a class of conditional independence models for discrete data with the property that one or more log-linear interactions are defined within two different marginal distributions and then constrained to 0; all the conditional independence models which are known to be non smooth belong to this class. We introduce a new marginal log-linear parameterization and show that smoothness may be restored by restricting one or more independence statements to hold conditionally to a restricted subset of the configurations of the conditioning variables. Our results are based on a specific reconstruction algorithm from log-linear parameters to probabilities and fixed point theory. Several examples are examined and a general rule for determining the implied conditional independence restrictions is outlined.

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