Markov bases and subbases for bounded contingency tables

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DOI10.1007/S10463-010-0289-2zbMATH Open1440.62220arXiv0905.4841OpenAlexW2018962646MaRDI QIDQ2634809FDOQ2634809


Authors: Fabio Rapallo, Ruriko Yoshida Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 19 February 2016

Published in: Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we study the computation of Markov bases for contingency tables whose cell entries have an upper bound. In general a Markov basis for unbounded contingency table under a certain model differs from a Markov basis for bounded tables. Rapallo, (2007) applied Lawrence lifting to compute a Markov basis for contingency tables whose cell entries are bounded. However, in the process, one has to compute the universal Gr"obner basis of the ideal associated with the design matrix for a model which is, in general, larger than any reduced Gr"obner basis. Thus, this is also infeasible in small- and medium-sized problems. In this paper we focus on bounded two-way contingency tables under independence model and show that if these bounds on cells are positive, i.e., they are not structural zeros, the set of basic moves of all 2imes2 minors connects all tables with given margins. We end this paper with an open problem that if we know the given margins are positive, we want to find the necessary and sufficient condition on the set of structural zeros so that the set of basic moves of all 2imes2 minors connects all incomplete contingency tables with given margins.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.4841




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