The Nonparanormal: Semiparametric Estimation of High Dimensional Undirected Graphs

  • Authors:
  • Han Liu;John Lafferty;Larry Wasserman

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • The Journal of Machine Learning Research
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Recent methods for estimating sparse undirected graphs for real-valued data in high dimensional problems rely heavily on the assumption of normality. We show how to use a semiparametric Gaussian copula---or "nonparanormal"---for high dimensional inference. Just as additive models extend linear models by replacing linear functions with a set of one-dimensional smooth functions, the nonparanormal extends the normal by transforming the variables by smooth functions. We derive a method for estimating the nonparanormal, study the method's theoretical properties, and show that it works well in many examples.