Score Matching for Compositional Distributions

DOI10.1080/01621459.2021.2016422MaRDI QIDQ6077574zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. L. Scealy, Andrew T. A. Wood

Publication date 18 October 2023

Published in Journal of the American Statistical Association (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12461

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet distributionlatent variablesmicrobiome datamultinomial distributionparameter estimationzeros

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistics (62-XX)

Abstract: Compositional data and multivariate count data with known totals are challenging to analyse due to the non-negativity and sum-to-one constraints on the sample space. It is often the case that many of the compositional components are highly right-skewed, with large numbers of zeros. A major limitation of currently available estimators for compositional models is that they either cannot handle many zeros in the data or are not computationally feasible in moderate to high dimensions. We derive a new set of novel score matching estimators applicable to distributions on a Riemannian manifold with boundary, of which the standard simplex is a special case. The score matching method is applied to estimate the parameters in a new flexible truncation model for compositional data and we show that the estimators are scalable and available in closed form. Through extensive simulation studies, the scoring methodology is demonstrated to work well for estimating the parameters in the new truncation model and also for the Dirichlet distribution. We apply the new model and estimators to real microbiome compositional data and show that the model provides a good fit to the data.

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