Year: 2012
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This research is about studying and comparing two different ways of building complex networks. The main goal of our study is to find an effective way to build networks, particularly when we have fewer observations than variables. We construct networks estimating the partial correlation coefficient on Classic Statistics (Inverse Method) and on Bayesian Statistics (Normal - Inverse Wishart conjugate prior). In this current work, in order to solve the problem of having less observations than variables, we propose a new methodology called local partial correlation, which consists of selecting, for each pair of variables, the other variables most correlated to the pair.We applied these methods on simulated data and compared them through ROC curves. The most attractive result is that, even though it has high computational costs, to use Bayesian inference on trees is better when we have less observations than variables. In other cases, both approaches present satisfactory results.
Source: AIP conference proceedings
DOI: 10.1063/1.4759617
Authors: Lina D. Thomas, Victor Fossaluza, Anatoly Yambartsev
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2075354599