Palindromic Bernoulli distributions

DOI10.1214/16-EJS1175zbMATH Open1351.62046arXiv1510.09072OpenAlexW2962939663MaRDI QIDQ315392FDOQ315392

Authors: Nanny Wermuth, Giovanni Maria Marchetti 

Publication date: 21 September 2016

Published in: Electronic Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce and study a subclass of joint Bernoulli distributions which has the palindromic property. For such distributions the vector of joint probabilities is unchanged when the order of the elements is reversed. We prove for binary variables that the palindromic property is equivalent to zero constraints on all odd-order interaction parameters, be it in parameterizations which are log-linear, linear or multivariate logistic. In particular, we derive the one-to-one parametric transformations for these three types of model specifications and give simple closed forms of maximum likelihood estimates. Some special cases and a case study are described.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.09072

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zbMATH Keywords

log-linear modelscentral symmetrylinear in probability modelsmedian-dichotomizationmultivariate logistic modelsodd-order interactionsorthant probabilities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contingency tables (62H17) Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10)

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