Generalized Fréchet Bounds for Cell Entries in Multidimensional Contingency Tables

DOI10.18409/JAS.V10I1.71MaRDI QIDQ5226936zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Caroline Uhler, Donald Richards

Publication date 2 August 2019

Published in Journal of Algebraic Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.02708

zbMATH Keywords

contingency tabletotal positivityFKG inequalitylog-supermodular functionFréchet bounds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contingency tables (62H17) Combinatorial inequalities (05A20) Structure and representation theory of distributive lattices (06D05)

Abstract: We consider the lattice, $mathcalL$, of all subsets of a multidimensional contingency table and establish the properties of monotonicity and supermodularity for the marginalization function, $n(cdot)$, on $mathcalL$. We derive from the supermodularity of $n(cdot)$ some generalized Fr'echet inequalities complementing and extending inequalities of Dobra and Fienberg. Further, we construct new monotonic and supermodular functions from $n(cdot)$, and we remark on the connection between supermodularity and some correlation inequalities for probability distributions on lattices. We also apply an inequality of Ky Fan to derive a new approach to Fr'echet inequalities for multidimensional contingency tables.

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