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Friday, May 31
Machine Learning
Modern Multivariate Analysis
Fri, May 31, 3:40 PM - 5:15 PM
Regency Ballroom AB
 

Estimating Multiple Precision Matrices Using Cluster Fusion Regularization (305041)

Aaron Molstad, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 
*Brad Price, West Virginia University 
Ben Sherwood, University of Kansas 

Keywords: Multiple Precision Matrix Estimation, Multivariate Methods

In this talk we propose a penalized likelihood method that simultaneously provides parameter estimates of multiple precision matrices and identifies related groupings of the precision matrices. A ridge fusion penalty is used to promote element-wise similarities between precision matrices that are identified as related. Both sparse and non-sparse versions of the estimator will be discussed. Computational approaches and model selection for each case will be addressed. Applications of our methods using discriminant analysis and Gaussian graphical models will also be presented. This is joint work with Aaron Molstad and Ben Sherwood.