Invariant theory and scaling algorithms for maximum likelihood estimation
We uncover connections between maximum likelihood estimation in statistics and norm minimization over a group orbit in invariant theory. We focus on Gaussian transformation families, which include matrix normal models and Gaussian graphical models given by transitive directed acyclic graphs. We use...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
2021
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