Compositional covariance shrinkage and regularised partial correlations

We propose an estimation procedure for covariation in wide compositional data sets. For compositions, widely-used logratio variables are interdependent due to a common reference. Logratio uncorrelated compositions are linearly independent before the unitsum constraint is imposed. We show how they ar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Jin, Suzanne, Notredame, Cédric, Erb, Ionas
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/421366
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/421366
https://dx.doi.org/10.57645/20.8080.02.8
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Mathematical statistics
compositional covariance structure
logratio analysis
partial correlation
James-Stein shrinkage
Estadística matemàtica
Classificació AMS::62 Statistics
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Estadística matemàtica
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Sumario:We propose an estimation procedure for covariation in wide compositional data sets. For compositions, widely-used logratio variables are interdependent due to a common reference. Logratio uncorrelated compositions are linearly independent before the unitsum constraint is imposed. We show how they are used to construct bespoke shrinkage targets for logratio covariance matrices and test a simple procedure for partial correlation estimates on both a simulated and a single-cell gene expression data set. For the underlying counts, different zero imputations are evaluated. The partial correlation induced by the closure is derived analytically. Data and code are available from GitHub.