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Infinitely exchangeable random graphs generated from a Poisson point process on monotone sets and applications to cluster analysis for networks

Statistics Theory 2011-10-25 v2 Machine Learning Statistics Theory

Abstract

We construct an infinitely exchangeable process on the set \cate\cate of subsets of the power set of the natural numbers N\mathbb{N} via a Poisson point process with mean measure Λ\Lambda on the power set of N\mathbb{N}. Each E\cateE\in\cate has a least monotone cover in \catf\catf, the collection of monotone subsets of \cate\cate, and every monotone subset maps to an undirected graph G\catgG\in\catg, the space of undirected graphs with vertex set N\mathbb{N}. We show a natural mapping \cate\catf\catg\cate\rightarrow\catf\rightarrow\catg which induces an infinitely exchangeable measure on the projective system \catg\rest\catg^{\rest} of graphs \catg\catg under permutation and restriction mappings given an infinitely exchangeable family of measures on the projective system \cate\rest\cate^{\rest} of subsets with permutation and restriction maps. We show potential connections of this process to applications in cluster analysis, machine learning, classification and Bayesian inference.

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@article{arxiv.1110.4088,
  title  = {Infinitely exchangeable random graphs generated from a Poisson point process on monotone sets and applications to cluster analysis for networks},
  author = {Harry Crane},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.4088},
  year   = {2011}
}

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12 pages

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