A sparse Ising model with covariates

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DOI10.1111/BIOM.12202zbMATH Open1393.62057arXiv1209.6342OpenAlexW2032259302WikidataQ35586841 ScholiaQ35586841MaRDI QIDQ3465372FDOQ3465372


Authors: Jie Cheng, Elizaveta Levina, Pei Wang, Ji Zhu Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 21 January 2016

Published in: Biometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: There has been a lot of work fitting Ising models to multivariate binary data in order to understand the conditional dependency relationships between the variables. However, additional covariates are frequently recorded together with the binary data, and may influence the dependence relationships. Motivated by such a dataset on genomic instability collected from tumor samples of several types, we propose a sparse covariate dependent Ising model to study both the conditional dependency within the binary data and its relationship with the additional covariates. This results in subject-specific Ising models, where the subject's covariates influence the strength of association between the genes. As in all exploratory data analysis, interpretability of results is important, and we use L1 penalties to induce sparsity in the fitted graphs and in the number of selected covariates. Two algorithms to fit the model are proposed and compared on a set of simulated data, and asymptotic results are established. The results on the tumor dataset and their biological significance are discussed in detail.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.6342




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