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Gaussian graphical model estimation with measurement error

  • Department of Statistics and Finance, School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

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  • Author Bio:

    Xianglu Wang is currently a master student at the School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He received his B.S. degree from USTC in 2019. His research mainly focuses on high-dimensional variable selection and inference

  • Corresponding author: E-mail: wz124517@mail.ustc.edu.cn
  • Received Date: 28 July 2022
  • Accepted Date: 23 October 2022
    • Available Online: 15 January 2024
    Abstract

  • Abstract

    It is well known that regression methods designed for clean data will lead to erroneous results if directly applied to corrupted data. Despite the recent methodological and algorithmic advances in Gaussian graphical model estimation, how to achieve efficient and scalable estimation under contaminated covariates is unclear. Here a new methodology called convex conditioned innovative scalable efficient estimation (COCOISEE) for Gaussian graphical models under both additive and multiplicative measurement errors is developed. It combines the strengths of the innovative scalable efficient estimation in the Gaussian graphical model and the nearest positive semidefinite matrix projection, thus enjoying stepwise convexity and scalability. Comprehensive theoretical guarantees are provided and the effectiveness of the proposed methodology is demonstrated through numerical studies.

    Graphical abstract

    The process of recovering the precision matrix in the presence of additive and multiplicative measurement errors.

    Abstract

    It is well known that regression methods designed for clean data will lead to erroneous results if directly applied to corrupted data. Despite the recent methodological and algorithmic advances in Gaussian graphical model estimation, how to achieve efficient and scalable estimation under contaminated covariates is unclear. Here a new methodology called convex conditioned innovative scalable efficient estimation (COCOISEE) for Gaussian graphical models under both additive and multiplicative measurement errors is developed. It combines the strengths of the innovative scalable efficient estimation in the Gaussian graphical model and the nearest positive semidefinite matrix projection, thus enjoying stepwise convexity and scalability. Comprehensive theoretical guarantees are provided and the effectiveness of the proposed methodology is demonstrated through numerical studies.

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    • We propose a new methodology COCOISEE to achieve scalable and interpretable estimation for Gaussian graphical model under both additive and multiplicative measurement errors.
    • The method is stepwise convex, computationally stable, efficient and scalable.
    • Both theoretical and simulation results verify the feasibility of our method.

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    [1]
    Baselmans B M, Jansen R, Ip H F, et al. Multivariate genome-wide analyses of the well-being spectrum. Nature Genetics, 2019, 51 (3): 445–451. doi: 10.1038/s41588-018-0320-8
    [2]
    Yang K, Lee L F. Identification and QML estimation of multivariate and simultaneous equations spatial autoregressive models. Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 196 (1): 196–214. doi: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2016.04.019
    [3]
    Zhu X, Huang D, Pan R, et al. Multivariate spatial autoregressive model for large scale social networks. Journal of Econometrics, 2020, 215 (2): 591–606. doi: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2018.11.018
    [4]
    Han F, Liu H. Optimal rates of convergence for latent generalized correlation matrix estimation in transelliptical distribution. arXiv: 1305.6916, 2013.
    [5]
    Rubinstein M. Markowitz’s “portfolio selection”: A fifty-year retrospective. The Journal of Finance, 2002, 57 (3): 1041–1045. doi: 10.1111/1540-6261.00453
    [6]
    Wegkamp M, Zhao Y. Adaptive estimation of the copula correlation matrix for semiparametric elliptical copulas. Bernoulli, 2016, 22 (2): 1184–1226. doi: 10.3150/14-BEJ690
    [7]
    Fan J, Han F, Liu H. Challenges of big data analysis. National Science Review, 2014, 1 (2): 293–314. doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwt032
    [8]
    Cai T, Liu W, Luo X. A constrained ℓ1 minimization approach to sparse precision matrix estimation. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2011, 106 (494): 594–607. doi: 10.1198/jasa.2011.tm10155
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    Tokuda T, Goodrich B, van Mechelen I, et al. Visualizing distributions of covariance matrices. New York: Columbia University, 2011.
    [10]
    Fan J, Peng H. Nonconcave penalized likelihood with a diverging number of parameters. The Annals of Statistics, 2004, 32 (3): 928–961. doi: 10.1214/009053604000000256
    [11]
    Yuan M, Lin Y. Model selection and estimation in the Gaussian graphical model. Biometrika, 2007, 94 (1): 19–35. doi: 10.1093/biomet/asm018
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    [15]
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    Rothman A J, Bickel P J, Levina E, et al. Sparse permutation invariant covariance estimation. Electronic Journal of Statistics, 2008, 2: 494–515. doi: 10.1214/08-EJS176
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