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Article: Grouped Dirichlet distribution: A new tool for incomplete categorical data analysis

TitleGrouped Dirichlet distribution: A new tool for incomplete categorical data analysis
Authors
KeywordsBeta-Liouville distribution
Data augmentation
Dirichlet distribution
EM algorithm
Grouped Dirichlet distribution
Incomplete categorical data
Issue Date2008
PublisherAcademic Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jmva
Citation
Journal Of Multivariate Analysis, 2008, v. 99 n. 3, p. 490-509 How to Cite?
AbstractMotivated by the likelihood functions of several incomplete categorical data, this article introduces a new family of distributions, grouped Dirichlet distributions (GDD), which includes the classical Dirichlet distribution (DD) as a special case. First, we develop distribution theory for the GDD in its own right. Second, we use this expanded family as a new tool for statistical analysis of incomplete categorical data. Starting with a GDD with two partitions, we derive its stochastic representation that provides a simple procedure for simulation. Other properties such as mixed moments, mode, marginal and conditional distributions are also derived. The general GDD with more than two partitions is considered in a parallel manner. Three data sets from a case-control study, a leprosy survey, and a neurological study are used to illustrate how the GDD can be used as a new tool for analyzing incomplete categorical data. Our approach based on GDD has at least two advantages over the commonly used approach based on the DD in both frequentist and conjugate Bayesian inference: (a) in some cases, both the maximum likelihood and Bayes estimates have closed-form expressions in the new approach, but not so when they are based on the commonly-used approach; and (b) even if a closed-form solution is not available, the EM and data augmentation algorithms in the new approach converge much faster than in the commonly-used approach. © 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/59876
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2023 Impact Factor: 1.4
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.837
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dc.description.abstractMotivated by the likelihood functions of several incomplete categorical data, this article introduces a new family of distributions, grouped Dirichlet distributions (GDD), which includes the classical Dirichlet distribution (DD) as a special case. First, we develop distribution theory for the GDD in its own right. Second, we use this expanded family as a new tool for statistical analysis of incomplete categorical data. Starting with a GDD with two partitions, we derive its stochastic representation that provides a simple procedure for simulation. Other properties such as mixed moments, mode, marginal and conditional distributions are also derived. The general GDD with more than two partitions is considered in a parallel manner. Three data sets from a case-control study, a leprosy survey, and a neurological study are used to illustrate how the GDD can be used as a new tool for analyzing incomplete categorical data. Our approach based on GDD has at least two advantages over the commonly used approach based on the DD in both frequentist and conjugate Bayesian inference: (a) in some cases, both the maximum likelihood and Bayes estimates have closed-form expressions in the new approach, but not so when they are based on the commonly-used approach; and (b) even if a closed-form solution is not available, the EM and data augmentation algorithms in the new approach converge much faster than in the commonly-used approach. © 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.en_HK
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dc.subjectBeta-Liouville distributionen_HK
dc.subjectData augmentationen_HK
dc.subjectDirichlet distributionen_HK
dc.subjectEM algorithmen_HK
dc.subjectGrouped Dirichlet distributionen_HK
dc.subjectIncomplete categorical dataen_HK
dc.titleGrouped Dirichlet distribution: A new tool for incomplete categorical data analysisen_HK
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