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Ridge Fusion in Statistical Learning

Machine Learning 2014-05-06 v3 Machine Learning Computation

Abstract

We propose a penalized likelihood method to jointly estimate multiple precision matrices for use in quadratic discriminant analysis and model based clustering. A ridge penalty and a ridge fusion penalty are used to introduce shrinkage and promote similarity between precision matrix estimates. Block-wise coordinate descent is used for optimization, and validation likelihood is used for tuning parameter selection. Our method is applied in quadratic discriminant analysis and semi-supervised model based clustering.

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@article{arxiv.1310.3892,
  title  = {Ridge Fusion in Statistical Learning},
  author = {Bradley S. Price and Charles J. Geyer and Adam J. Rothman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.3892},
  year   = {2014}
}

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24 pages and 9 tables, 3 figures

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