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Fast Bayesian inference in large Gaussian graphical models

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Authors

Leday, Gwenaël GR 

Abstract

Despite major methodological developments, Bayesian inference in Gaussian graphical models remains challenging in high dimension due to the tremendous size of the model space. This article proposes a method to infer the marginal and conditional independence structures between variables by multiple testing, which bypasses the exploration of the model space. Specifically, we introduce closed-form Bayes factors under the Gaussian conjugate model to evaluate the null hypotheses of marginal and conditional independence between variables. Their computation for all pairs of variables is shown to be extremely efficient, thereby allowing us to address large problems with thousands of nodes as required by modern applications. Moreover, we derive exact tail probabilities from the null distributions of the Bayes factors. These allow the use of any multiplicity correction procedure to control error rates for incorrect edge inclusion. We demonstrate the proposed approach on various simulated examples as well as on a large gene expression data set from The Cancer Genome Atlas.

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Keywords

stat.ME, stat.ME

Journal Title

Biometrics

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Journal ISSN

1541-0420
1541-0420

Volume Title

75

Publisher

Wiley
Sponsorship
This research was supported by the Medical Research Council core funding number MRC MC UP 0801/and grant number MR/M004421.