scholarly journals Restricted graphical log-linear models

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 17-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Ramírez-Aldana ◽  
Guillermina Eslava-Gómez

We introduce a new type of graphical log-linear model called restricted graphical log-linear model. This model is obtained by imposing equality restrictions on subsets of main effects and of first-order interactions. These restrictions are obtained through partitions of the variable and first-order interaction sets. The vertices or variables in the same class have the same main effects in all their categories and the first-order interactions in the same class are equal. We study its properties and derive its associated likelihood equations and give some applications. A graphical representation is possible through a coloured graph.

Author(s):  
Necva Bölücü ◽  
Burcu Can

Part of speech (PoS) tagging is one of the fundamental syntactic tasks in Natural Language Processing, as it assigns a syntactic category to each word within a given sentence or context (such as noun, verb, adjective, etc.). Those syntactic categories could be used to further analyze the sentence-level syntax (e.g., dependency parsing) and thereby extract the meaning of the sentence (e.g., semantic parsing). Various methods have been proposed for learning PoS tags in an unsupervised setting without using any annotated corpora. One of the widely used methods for the tagging problem is log-linear models. Initialization of the parameters in a log-linear model is very crucial for the inference. Different initialization techniques have been used so far. In this work, we present a log-linear model for PoS tagging that uses another fully unsupervised Bayesian model to initialize the parameters of the model in a cascaded framework. Therefore, we transfer some knowledge between two different unsupervised models to leverage the PoS tagging results, where a log-linear model benefits from a Bayesian model’s expertise. We present results for Turkish as a morphologically rich language and for English as a comparably morphologically poor language in a fully unsupervised framework. The results show that our framework outperforms other unsupervised models proposed for PoS tagging.


2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Fatin N.S.A. ◽  
Norlida M.N. ◽  
Siti Z.M.J.

Log-linear model is a technique used to analyze the cross-classification categorical data or the contingency table. It is used to obtain the parsimony models that describe the interaction between the categorical variables in contingency tables. Log-linear models are commonly used in evaluating higher dimensional contingency tables that involves more than two categorical variables. This study focuses on analyzing data of poisoned patients from 2012 to 2014 using log-linear model. There are two model analyzed; model for demographic data of patients and model of poisoning information. For the first model, the variables involved are gender, age, race and state. Variables for the second model are circumstance of exposure, type of exposure, location of exposure, route of exposure and types of poison. Both log-linear models are developed to investigate the association between variables in the model. As a result of this study, the best model for demographic data and poisoning information are the model with three-ways interaction. For the best model of demographic data, there is an association between gender, age and race, race, gender and state as well as age, race and state. Meanwhile, the best model for poisoning information reveals that there is relationship between circumstance of exposure, route of exposure and type of poison, location of exposure, route of exposure and type of poison, circumstance of exposure, type of exposure and route of exposure, circumstance of exposure, location of exposure and route of exposure, circumstance of exposure, type of exposure and type of poison and also type of exposure, location of exposure and type of poison. Keywords: log-linear; demographic; gender; age; race; state; circumstance of exposure; type of exposure; location of exposure; route of exposure; types of poison


2004 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Girard ◽  
Taha B.M.J Ouarda ◽  
Bernard Bobée

Log-linear models are frequently used in hydrology, especially for the regional estimation of flood volumes based on the physiographic data of a set of basins. A log-linear model describes a linear relationship between the log of a dependant variable and independent variables which are functions of parameters, of which the value remains to be determined. It is determined by using a set of basins with known values of dependant and independent variables. The model is then used to obtain a prediction for the dependant variable logarithm of a basin of interest, based on the known values of independent variables in the model. This prediction is unbiased with relation to the log of the target variable. However, the exponential value of this prediction is biased with relation to the target variable. This paper addresses the measures to correct the bias in the prediction, which is introduced by exponentiation; the impacts on the variance of the ensuing predictions is also discussed. Key words: bias, transformation, log-linear model.[Journal translation]


1981 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
RB Cunningham ◽  
AA Webb ◽  
A Mortlock

The association of poplar box (Eucalyptus populnea) with five main soil groups is examined. A statistical analysis, using a log- linear model, indicated that the relative frequencies of poplar box sites occumng on major soil groups changed with geographic location. The change in distribution is shown to relate to climate, as indicated by summer and winter moisture indices and the diff- erence between them. This study illustrates the use of log-linear models in ecology; such models, and more generally, Generalized Linear Models, in providing significance tests, have advantages over the non-statistical methods of gradient analysis.


1981 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank B. Baker

The recently developed log-linear model technique for the analysis of contingency tables has many potential applications within educational research. This paper describes the two major models, log-linear and logit-linear, that are employed under this approach. The basic logic of each is developed and illustrative data analyses presented. In addition, the underlying communality of the two schemes is shown. The intent was to provide the reader with perspective that will facilitate understanding the approach and its application to the analysis of qualitative data.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 191483
Author(s):  
W. Jing ◽  
M. Papathomas

Consider a set of categorical variables P where at least one, denoted by Y , is binary. The log-linear model that describes the contingency table counts implies a logistic regression model, with outcome Y . Extending results from Christensen (1997, Log-linear models and logistic regression , 2nd edn. New York, NY, Springer), we prove that the maximum-likelihood estimates (MLE) of the logistic regression parameters equals the MLE for the corresponding log-linear model parameters, also considering the case where contingency table factors are not present in the corresponding logistic regression and some of the contingency table cells are collapsed together. We prove that, asymptotically, standard errors are also equal. These results demonstrate the extent to which inferences from the log-linear framework translate to inferences within the logistic regression framework, on the magnitude of main effects and interactions. Finally, we prove that the deviance of the log-linear model is equal to the deviance of the corresponding logistic regression, provided that no cell observations are collapsed together when one or more factors in P ∖ { Y } become obsolete. We illustrate the derived results with the analysis of a real dataset.


2018 ◽  
Vol 84 (11) ◽  
pp. 74-87
Author(s):  
V. B. Bokov

A new statistical method for response steepest improvement is proposed. This method is based on an initial experiment performed on two-level factorial design and first-order statistical linear model with coded numerical factors and response variables. The factors for the runs of response steepest improvement are estimated from the data of initial experiment and determination of the conditional extremum. Confidence intervals are determined for those factors. The first-order polynomial response function fitted to the data of the initial experiment makes it possible to predict the response of the runs for response steepest improvement. The linear model of the response prediction, as well as the results of the estimation of the parameters of the linear model for the initial experiment and factors for the experiments of the steepest improvement of the response, are used when finding prediction response intervals in these experiments. Kknowledge of the prediction response intervals in the runs of steepest improvement of the response makes it possible to detect the results beyond their limits and to find the limiting values of the factors for which further runs of response steepest improvement become ineffective and a new initial experiment must be carried out.


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