Regularized Estimation of Piecewise Constant Gaussian Graphical Models: The Group-Fused Graphical Lasso
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Gibberd, AJ
Nelson, JDB
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The time-evolving precision matrix of a piecewise-constant Gaussian graphical model encodes the dynamic conditional dependency structure of a multivariate time-series. Traditionally, graphical models are estimated under the assumption that data are drawn identically from a generating distribution. Introducing sparsity and sparse-difference inducing priors, we relax these assumptions and propose a novel regularized M-estimator to jointly estimate both the graph and changepoint structure. The resulting estimator possesses the ability to therefore favor sparse dependency structures and/or smoothly evolving graph structures, as required. Moreover, our approach extends current methods to allow estimation of changepoints that are grouped across multiple dependencies in a system. An efficient algorithm for estimating structure is proposed. We study the empirical recovery properties in a synthetic setting. The qualitative effect of grouped changepoint estimation is then demonstrated by applying the method on a genetic time-course dataset. Supplementary material for this article is available online.
Date Issued
2017-03-07
Date Acceptance
2017-03-07
Citation
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 2017, 26 (3), pp.623-634
ISSN
1061-8600
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Start Page
623
End Page
634
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
Volume
26
Issue
3
Copyright Statement
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics on 7 Mar 2017, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/10618600.2017.1302340
Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Statistics & Probability
Mathematics
Changepoint
High-dimensional
M-estimator
Sparsity
Time-series
INVERSE COVARIANCE ESTIMATION
SPARSE-GROUP LASSO
DROSOPHILA-MELANOGASTER
SELECTION
REGRESSION
NETWORKS
Publication Status
Published