Title
Transelliptical Graphical Models.
Abstract
We advocate the use of a new distribution family—the transelliptical—for robust inference of high dimensional graphical models. The transelliptical family is an extension of the nonparanormal family proposed by Liu et al. (2009). Just as the nonparanormal extends the normal by transforming the variables using univariate functions, the transelliptical extends the elliptical family in the same way. We propose a nonparametric rank-based regularization estimator which achieves the parametric rates of convergence for both graph recovery and parameter estima- tion. Such a result suggests that the extra robustness and flexibility obtained by the semiparametric transelliptical modeling incurs almost no efficiency loss. We also discuss the relationship between this work with the transelliptical component analysis proposed by Han and Liu (2012).
Year
Venue
Field
2012
NIPS
Mathematical optimization,Computer science,Inference,Nonparametric statistics,Robustness (computer science),Parametric statistics,Artificial intelligence,Estimation theory,Graphical model,Univariate,Machine learning,Estimator
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
4
0.47
References 
Authors
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Liu, Han140.47
Han, Fang24810.86
Cun-Hui Zhang317418.38