High-Dimensional Bernstein Von-Mises Theorems for Covariance and Precision Matrices
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| author | Sarkar, Partha Khare, Kshitij Ghosh, Malay Wand, Matt P. |
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| contents | This paper aims to examine the characteristics of the posterior distribution of covariance/precision matrices in a "large $p$, large $n$" scenario, where $p$ represents the number of variables and $n$ is the sample size. Our analysis focuses on establishing asymptotic normality of the posterior distribution of the entire covariance/precision matrices under specific growth restrictions on $p_n$ and other mild assumptions. In particular, the limiting distribution turns out to be a symmetric matrix variate normal distribution whose parameters depend on the maximum likelihood estimate. Our results hold for a wide class of prior distributions which includes standard choices used by practitioners. Next, we consider Gaussian graphical models which induce sparsity in the precision matrix. Asymptotic normality of the corresponding posterior distribution is established under mild assumptions on the prior and true data-generating mechanism. |
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| spellingShingle | High-Dimensional Bernstein Von-Mises Theorems for Covariance and Precision Matrices Sarkar, Partha Khare, Kshitij Ghosh, Malay Wand, Matt P. Statistics Theory This paper aims to examine the characteristics of the posterior distribution of covariance/precision matrices in a "large $p$, large $n$" scenario, where $p$ represents the number of variables and $n$ is the sample size. Our analysis focuses on establishing asymptotic normality of the posterior distribution of the entire covariance/precision matrices under specific growth restrictions on $p_n$ and other mild assumptions. In particular, the limiting distribution turns out to be a symmetric matrix variate normal distribution whose parameters depend on the maximum likelihood estimate. Our results hold for a wide class of prior distributions which includes standard choices used by practitioners. Next, we consider Gaussian graphical models which induce sparsity in the precision matrix. Asymptotic normality of the corresponding posterior distribution is established under mild assumptions on the prior and true data-generating mechanism. |
| title | High-Dimensional Bernstein Von-Mises Theorems for Covariance and Precision Matrices |
| topic | Statistics Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.08556 |