Estimating heterogeneous graphical models for discrete data with an application to roll call voting

DOI10.1214/13-AOAS700zbMATH Open1397.62195arXiv1509.04828WikidataQ31096248 ScholiaQ31096248MaRDI QIDQ746672FDOQ746672

Authors: Jian Guo, Jie Cheng, Elizaveta Levina, George Michailidis, Ji Zhu 

Publication date: 28 October 2015

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the problem of jointly estimating a collection of graphical models for discrete data, corresponding to several categories that share some common structure. An example for such a setting is voting records of legislators on different issues, such as defense, energy, and healthcare. We develop a Markov graphical model to characterize the heterogeneous dependence structures arising from such data. The model is fitted via a joint estimation method that preserves the underlying common graph structure, but also allows for differences between the networks. The method employs a group penalty that targets the common zero interaction effects across all the networks. We apply the method to describe the internal networks of the U.S. Senate on several important issues. Our analysis reveals individual structure for each issue, distinct from the underlying well-known bipartisan structure common to all categories which we are able to extract separately. We also establish consistency of the proposed method both for parameter estimation and model selection, and evaluate its numerical performance on a number of simulated examples.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.04828

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zbMATH Keywords

parameter estimationhigh-dimensional databinary datagraphical modelsMarkov network\(\ell_{1}\) penaltygroup penalty

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multivariate analysis (62H99) Applications of graph theory (05C90) Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12) Applications of statistics to social sciences (62P25)

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