Kernel partial correlation: a novel approach to capturing conditional independence in graphical models for noisy data

Jihwan Oh, Faye Zheng, R. W. Doerge and Hyonho Chun

Journal of Applied Statistics, 2018, vol. 45, issue 14, 2677-2696

Abstract: Graphical models capture the conditional independence structure among random variables via existence of edges among vertices. One way of inferring a graph is to identify zero partial correlation coefficients, which is an effective way of finding conditional independence under a multivariate Gaussian setting. For more general settings, we propose kernel partial correlation which extends partial correlation with a combination of two kernel methods. First, a nonparametric function estimation is employed to remove effects from other variables, and then the dependence between remaining random components is assessed through a nonparametric association measure. The proposed approach is not only flexible but also robust under high levels of noise owing to the robustness of the nonparametric approaches.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2018.1437123

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