题目：High-Dimensional Gaussian Graphical Model for Network-Linked Data

报告人：Prof. Zhu Ji (美国密歇根大学）

地点：致远楼108室

时间：2018年5月12日上午9:45开始

摘要：Graphical models are commonly used in representing conditional independence between random variables, and learning the conditional independence structure from data has attracted much attention in recent years. However, almost all commonly used graph learning methods rely on the assumption that the observations share the same mean vector. In this paper, we extend the Gaussian graphical model to the setting where the observations are connected by a network and propose a model that allows the mean vectors for different observations to be different. We have developed an efficient estimation method for the model and demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method using simulation studies. Further, we prove that under the assumption of "network cohesion", the proposed method can estimate both the inverse covariance matrix and the corresponding graph structure accurately. We have also applied the proposed method to a dataset consisting of statisticians' coauthorship network to learn the statistical term dependency based on the authors' publications and obtained meaningful results. This is joint work with Tianxi Li, Cheng Qian and Elizaveta Levina.

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