Computing all roots of the likelihood equations of seemingly unrelated regressions

DOI10.1016/J.JSC.2005.04.005zbMATH Open1120.62037OpenAlexW1969532300WikidataQ57566460 ScholiaQ57566460MaRDI QIDQ2457331FDOQ2457331

Authors Mathias Drton 

Publication date 23 October 2007

Published in Journal of Symbolic Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0508437

zbMATH Keywords

maximum likelihood estimationmultivariate statisticsseemingly unrelated regressionsAlgebraic statisticsGröbner basis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Linear inference, regression (62J99) Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12) Applications of mathematical programming (90C90) Gröbner bases; other bases for ideals and modules (e.g., Janet and border bases) (13P10)

Abstract: Seemingly unrelated regressions are statistical regression models based on the Gaussian distribution. They are popular in econometrics but also arise in graphical modeling of multivariate dependencies. In maximum likelihood estimation, the parameters of the model are estimated by maximizing the likelihood function, which maps the parameters to the likelihood of observing the given data. By transforming this optimization problem into a polynomial optimization problem, it was recently shown that the likelihood function of a simple bivariate seemingly unrelated regressions model may have several stationary points. Thus local maxima may complicate maximum likelihood estimation. In this paper, we study several more complicated seemingly unrelated regression models, and show how all stationary points of the likelihood function can be computed using algebraic geometry.

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