Inference for high-dimensional differential correlation matrices

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DOI10.1016/J.JMVA.2015.08.019zbMATH Open1328.62328DBLPjournals/ma/CaiZ16arXiv1408.5907OpenAlexW1419241926WikidataQ43211194 ScholiaQ43211194MaRDI QIDQ900795FDOQ900795

T. Tony Cai, Anru Zhang

Publication date: 23 December 2015

Published in: Journal of Multivariate Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Motivated by differential co-expression analysis in genomics, we consider in this paper estimation and testing of high-dimensional differential correlation matrices. An adaptive thresholding procedure is introduced and theoretical guarantees are given. Minimax rate of convergence is established and the proposed estimator is shown to be adaptively rate-optimal over collections of paired correlation matrices with approximately sparse differences. Simulation results show that the procedure significantly outperforms two other natural methods that are based on separate estimation of the individual correlation matrices. The procedure is also illustrated through an analysis of a breast cancer dataset, which provides evidence at the gene co-expression level that several genes, of which a subset has been previously verified, are associated with the breast cancer. Hypothesis testing on the differential correlation matrices is also considered. A test, which is particularly well suited for testing against sparse alternatives, is introduced. In addition, other related problems, including estimation of a single sparse correlation matrix, estimation of the differential covariance matrices, and estimation of the differential cross-correlation matrices, are also discussed.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.5907




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