Multivariate Conway-Maxwell-Poisson Distribution: Sarmanov Method and Doubly Intractable Bayesian Inference

DOI10.1080/10618600.2022.2116443MaRDI QIDQ6094076OpenAlexFDO

Authors Luiza Sette C. Piancastelli, Nial Friel, Wagner Barreto-Souza, Hernando C. Ombao

Publication date 9 October 2023

Published in Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07561

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian inferenceConway-Maxwell-Poisson distributionexchange algorithmthermodynamic integrationpseudo-marginal Monte Carlomultivariate count data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistics (62-XX)

Abstract: In this paper, a multivariate count distribution with Conway-Maxwell (COM)-Poisson marginals is proposed. To do this, we develop a modification of the Sarmanov method for constructing multivariate distributions. Our multivariate COM-Poisson (MultCOMP) model has desirable features such as (i) it admits a flexible covariance matrix allowing for both negative and positive non-diagonal entries; (ii) it overcomes the limitation of the existing bivariate COM-Poisson distributions in the literature that do not have COM-Poisson marginals; (iii) it allows for the analysis of multivariate counts and is not just limited to bivariate counts. Inferential challenges are presented by the likelihood specification as it depends on a number of intractable normalizing constants involving the model parameters. These obstacles motivate us to propose a Bayesian inferential approach where the resulting doubly-intractable posterior is dealt with via the exchange algorithm and the Grouped Independence Metropolis-Hastings algorithm. Numerical experiments based on simulations are presented to illustrate the proposed Bayesian approach. We analyze the potential of the MultCOMP model through a real data application on the numbers of goals scored by the home and away teams in the Premier League from 2018 to 2021. Here, our interest is to assess the effect of a lack of crowds during the COVID-19 pandemic on the well-known home team advantage. A MultCOMP model fit shows that there is evidence of a decreased number of goals scored by the home team, not accompanied by a reduced score from the opponent. Hence, our analysis suggests a smaller home team advantage in the absence of crowds, which agrees with the opinion of several football experts.

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