Statistics – Methodology
Scientific paper
2009-04-09
Statistics
Methodology
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Scientific paper
Large contingency tables summarizing categorical variables arise in many areas. For example in biology when a large number of biomarkers are cross-tabulated according to their discrete expression level. Interactions of the variables are generally studied with log-linear models and the structure of a log-linear model can be visually represented by a graph from which the conditional independence structure can then be read off. However, since the number of parameters in a saturated model grows exponentially in the number of variables, this generally comes with a heavy burden as far as computational power is concerned. If we restrict ourselves to models of lower order interactions or other sparse structures we face similar problems as the number of cells remains unchanged. We therefore present a divide-and-conquer approach, where we first divide the problem into several lower-dimensional problems and then combine these to form a global solution. Our methodology is computationally feasible for log-linear interaction modeling with many categorical variables each or some of them having many categories. We demonstrate the proposed method on simulated data and apply it to a bio-medical problem in cancer research.
Bühlmann Peter
Dahinden Corinne
Kalisch Markus
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