Robust estimation of sparse precision matrix using adaptive weighted graphical lasso approach

Peng Tang, Huijing Jiang, Heeyoung Kim and Xinwei Deng

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 2021, vol. 33, issue 2, 249-272

Abstract: Estimation of a precision matrix (i.e. inverse covariance matrix) is widely used to exploit conditional independence among continuous variables. The influence of abnormal observations is exacerbated in a high dimensional setting as the dimensionality increases. In this work, we propose robust estimation of the inverse covariance matrix based on an $ l_1 $ l1 regularised objective function with a weighted sample covariance matrix. The robustness of the proposed objective function can be justified by a nonparametric technique of the integrated squared error criterion. To address the non-convexity of the objective function, we develop an efficient algorithm in a similar spirit of majorisation-minimisation. Asymptotic consistency of the proposed estimator is also established. The performance of the proposed method is compared with several existing approaches via numerical simulations. We further demonstrate the merits of the proposed method with application in genetic network inference.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/10485252.2021.1931688

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