Reciprocal maximum likelihood degrees of Brownian motion tree models

DOI10.4418/2021.76.2.6MaRDI QIDQ5030921zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tobias Boege, Jane Ivy Coons, Christopher Eur, Aida Maraj, Frank Röttger

Publication date 18 February 2022

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11849

zbMATH Keywords

Brownian motion tree modelmaximum likelihood degreetoric fiber product

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Point estimation (62F10) Algebraic statistics (62R01)

Abstract: We give an explicit formula for the reciprocal maximum likelihood degree of Brownian motion tree models. To achieve this, we connect them to certain toric (or log-linear) models, and express the Brownian motion tree model of an arbitrary tree as a toric fiber product of star tree models.

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• Brownian motion tree models are toric
• Symmetrically Colored Gaussian Graphical Models with Toric Vanishing Ideals
• Beyond linear algebra
• Differential equations for Gaussian statistical models with rational maximum likelihood estimator
• Symmetry Lie algebras of varieties with applications to algebraic statistics
• Applications of intersection theory and gradients: from maximum likelihood to chromatic polynomials
• Toric multivariate Gaussian models from symmetries in a tree
• ML degrees of Brownian motion tree models: star trees and root invariance
• Maximum likelihood degree of the -stochastic blockmodel
• Applications of singularity theory in applied algebraic geometry and algebraic statistics

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• LinearCovarianceModels.jl

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