Bayesian inference for low-rank Ising networks

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Publication date 2015
Journal Scientific Reports
Article number 9050
Volume | Issue number 5
Number of pages 7
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  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Psychology Research Institute (PsyRes)
Abstract Estimating the structure of Ising networks is a notoriously difficult problem. We demonstrate that using a latent variable representation of the Ising network, we can employ a full-data-information approach to uncover the network structure. Thereby, only ignoring information encoded in the prior distribution (of the latent variables). The full-data-information approach avoids having to compute the partition function and is thus computationally feasible, even for networks with many nodes. We illustrate the full-data-information approach with the estimation of dense networks.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1038/srep09050
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