Likelihood Correspondence of Toric Statistical Models

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Main Authors: Barnhill, David, Cobb, John, Faust, Matthew
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Published: 2023
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author Barnhill, David
Cobb, John
Faust, Matthew
author_facet Barnhill, David
Cobb, John
Faust, Matthew
contents Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) is a fundamental problem in statistics. Characteristics of the MLE problem for discrete algebraic statistical models are reflected in the geometry of the $\textit{likelihood correspondence}$, a variety that ties together data and their maximum likelihood estimators. We construct this ideal for the large class of toric models and find a Gröbner basis in the case of complete and joint independence models arising from multi-way contingency tables. All of our constructions are implemented in $\textit{Macaulay2}$ in a package $\texttt{LikelihoodGeometry}$ along with other tools of use in algebraic statistics. We end with an experimental section using these implementations on several interesting examples.
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spellingShingle Likelihood Correspondence of Toric Statistical Models
Barnhill, David
Cobb, John
Faust, Matthew
Statistics Theory
Commutative Algebra
Algebraic Geometry
62R01, 13P25, 14N99
Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) is a fundamental problem in statistics. Characteristics of the MLE problem for discrete algebraic statistical models are reflected in the geometry of the $\textit{likelihood correspondence}$, a variety that ties together data and their maximum likelihood estimators. We construct this ideal for the large class of toric models and find a Gröbner basis in the case of complete and joint independence models arising from multi-way contingency tables. All of our constructions are implemented in $\textit{Macaulay2}$ in a package $\texttt{LikelihoodGeometry}$ along with other tools of use in algebraic statistics. We end with an experimental section using these implementations on several interesting examples.
title Likelihood Correspondence of Toric Statistical Models
topic Statistics Theory
Commutative Algebra
Algebraic Geometry
62R01, 13P25, 14N99
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08501