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Activity Number: 52
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Sunday, August 4, 2013 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
Sponsor: IMS
Abstract - #307164
Title: Sparse Non-Negative Tensor Factorizations for Large Contingency Tables
Author(s): Anirban Bhattacharya*+
Companies: Duke University
Keywords: Bayesian ; Contingency table ; High-dimensional ; Posterior convergence ; Sparsity ; Tensor decomposition
Abstract:

High-dimensional unordered categorical data appear in a staggering number of areas ranging from marketing applications, behavioral and social sciences, government surveys, web data, relational networks, genetic epidemiology among others. Such data can be organized into a massive dimensional contingency table that would typically be extremely sparse. Traditional approaches for contingency table analysis fail to scale up to moderate dimensions and alternative approaches based on non-negative tensor factorization hold much promise in this regard. With such motivation, we develop sparse tensor factorizations for multivariate categorical variables where the number of variables can be potentially much larger than the sample size. Theoretical properties of the proposed method are investigated and operating characteristics are examined through simulated and real data examples. We also provide a modification of our proposed method to allow for tests of association between groups of variables, with application in genetic epidemiology.


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