报告简介  Abstract

We introduce a Sufficient  Graphical Model by applying the recently developed nonlinear sufficient dimension reduction techniques to the evaluation of conditional independence. The graphical model is nonparametric in nature, as  it does not  make distributional assumptions  such as the Gaussian or copula Gaussian assumptions. However, unlike a fully nonparametric graphical model, which relies on the high-dimensional kernel to characterize conditional independence,    our graphical model is based on conditional independence given a set of sufficient predictors with a substantially reduced dimension. In this way we avoid  the  the curse of dimensionality that comes with a high-dimensional kernel. We develop the population-level properties,  convergence rate, and variable selection consistency of our estimate. By  simulation comparisons and an analysis of the DREAM 4 Challenge data set, we demonstrate that our method outperforms the existing methods when the Gaussian or copula Gaussian assumptions are violated, and its performance remains excellent in the high-dimensional setting.

嘉宾简介  About the Speaker

Bing Li is a Verne M. Willaman Professor of Statistics at Penn State. Li received his Ph.D. in Statistics in 1992 from The University of Chicago, and received his M.Sc. in Statistics in 1989 from The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Li completed his M.Sc. in System Sciences in 1986 at the Graduate School of Beijing Institute of Technology in Beijing, China, where he also received his B.Sc. in Automatic Control in 1982.

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