کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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416321 | 681329 | 2015 | 16 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
The concepts of faithfulness and strong-faithfulness are important for statistical learning of graphical models. Graphs are not sufficient for describing the association structure of a discrete distribution. Hypergraphs representing hierarchical log-linear models are considered instead, and the concept of parametric (strong-)faithfulness with respect to a hypergraph is introduced. The strength of association in a discrete distribution can be quantified with various measures, leading to different concepts of strong-faithfulness. It is proven that strong-faithfulness defined in terms of interaction parameters ensures the existence of uniformly consistent parameter estimators and enables building uniformly consistent procedures for a hypergraph search. Lower and upper bounds for the proportions of distributions that do not satisfy strong-faithfulness are computed for different parameterizations and measures of association.
Journal: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis - Volume 87, July 2015, Pages 57–72