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ArticleBiometrika2022

Graphical Gaussian Process Models for Highly Multivariate Spatial Data.

Debangan Dey, Abhirup Datta, Sudipto Banerjee

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Article in Biometrika, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Graph-constrained Analysis for Multivariate Functional Data.Journal of multivariate analysis · 2025
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  3. Dynamic Bayesian Learning for Spatiotemporal Mechanistic Models.Journal of machine learning research : JMLR · 2025
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  5. Neural networks for geospatial data.Journal of the American Statistical Association · 2025
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  6. Spatial meshing for general Bayesian multivariate models.Journal of machine learning research : JMLR · 2024
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  7. Graphical Dirichlet Process for Clustering Non-Exchangeable Grouped Data.Journal of machine learning research : JMLR · 2024
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  8. Modeling Multivariate Spatial Dependencies Using Graphical Models.The New England Journal of Statistics in Data Science · 2023
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3 authors.

Debangan DeyDepartment of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Abhirup DattaDepartment of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Sudipto BanerjeeDepartment of Biostatistics, University of California Los Angeles.

Funding

Hierarchical Modeling and Analysis for Large Spatially and Temporally Misaligned Data in Environmental Health ApplicationsR01ES027027 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI BANERJEE, SUDIPTO · 2017 to 2021
$1.7M
Flexible Bayesian Hierarchical Models for Estimating Inhalation ExposuresR01ES030210 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI BANERJEE, SUDIPTO · 2019 to 2022
$1.6M
NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES027027NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES030210
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For multivariate spatial Gaussian process (GP) models, customary specifications of cross-covariance functions do not exploit relational inter-variable graphs to ensure process-level conditional independence among the variables. This is undesirable, especially for highly multivariate settings, where popular cross-covariance functions such as the multivariate Matérn suffer from a "curse of dimensionality" as the number of parameters and floating point operations scale up in quadratic and cubic order, respectively, in the number of variables. We propose a class of multivariate "Graphical Gaussian Processes" using a general construction called "stitching" that crafts cross-covariance functions from graphs and ensures process-level conditional independence among variables. For the Matérn family of functions, stitching yields a multivariate GP whose univariate components are Matérn GPs, and conforms to process-level conditional independence as specified by the graphical model. For highly multivariate settings and decomposable graphical models, stitching offers massive computational gains and parameter dimension reduction. We demonstrate the utility of the graphical Matérn GP to jointly model highly multivariate spatial data using simulation examples and an application to air-pollution modelling.

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conditional independencecovariance selectiongraphical modelMatérn Gaussian processes

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PMID36643962
PMCPMC9838617

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