Journal
BAYESIAN ANALYSIS
Volume 15, Issue 2, Pages 449-475Publisher
INT SOC BAYESIAN ANALYSIS
DOI: 10.1214/19-BA1159
Keywords
Bayesian inference; nonparanormal; Gaussian graphical models; sparsity; continuous shrinkage prior
Funding
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program [DGE-1252376]
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [GM081057]
- NSF [DMS-1732842, DMS-1510238]
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Gaussian graphical models have been used to study intrinsic dependence among several variables, but the Gaussianity assumption may be restrictive in many applications. A nonparanormal graphical model is a semiparametric generalization for continuous variables where it is assumed that the variables follow a Gaussian graphical model only after some unknown smooth monotone transformations on each of them. We consider a Bayesian approach in the nonparanormal graphical model by putting priors on the unknown transformations through a random series based on B-splines where the coefficients are ordered to induce monotonicity. A truncated normal prior leads to partial conjugacy in the model and is useful for posterior simulation using Gibbs sampling. On the underlying precision matrix of the transformed variables, we consider a spike-and-slab prior and use an efficient posterior Gibbs sampling scheme. We use the Bayesian Information Criterion to choose the hyperparameters for the spike-and-slab prior. We present a posterior consistency result on the underlying transformation and the precision matrix. We study the numerical performance of the proposed method through an extensive simulation study and finally apply the proposed method on a real data set.
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