Hypothesis Testing of Matrix Graph Model with Application to Brain Connectivity Analysis

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DOI10.1111/BIOM.12633zbMATH Open1522.62263arXiv1511.00718OpenAlexW2963191122WikidataQ39105563 ScholiaQ39105563MaRDI QIDQ6079973FDOQ6079973


Authors: Yin Xia, Lexin Li Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 30 October 2023

Published in: Biometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Brain connectivity analysis is now at the foreground of neuroscience research. A connectivity network is characterized by a graph, where nodes represent neural elements such as neurons and brain regions, and links represent statistical dependences that are often encoded in terms of partial correlations. Such a graph is inferred from matrix-valued neuroimaging data such as electroencephalography and functional magnetic resonance imaging. There have been a good number of successful proposals for sparse precision matrix estimation under normal or matrix normal distribution; however, this family of solutions do not offer a statistical significance quantification for the estimated links. In this article, we adopt a matrix normal distribution framework and formulate the brain connectivity analysis as a precision matrix hypothesis testing problem. Based on the separable spatial-temporal dependence structure, we develop oracle and data-driven procedures to test the global hypothesis that all spatial locations are conditionally independent, which are shown to be particularly powerful against the sparse alternatives. In addition, simultaneous tests for identifying conditional dependent spatial locations with false discovery rate control are proposed in both oracle and data-driven settings. Theoretical results show that the data-driven procedures perform asymptotically as well as the oracle procedures and enjoy certain optimality properties. The empirical finite-sample performance of the proposed tests is studied via simulations, and the new tests are applied on a real electroencephalography data analysis.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.00718




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