MULTILINEAR TENSOR REGRESSION FOR LONGITUDINAL RELATIONAL DATA

作者：Hoff, Peter D.^*

来源：Annals of Applied Statistics, 2015, 9(3): 1169-1193.

DOI：10.1214/15-AOAS839

• Array normal
• Bayesian inference
• event data
• international relations
• network
• Tucker product
• vector autoregression

A fundamental aspect of relational data, such as from a social network, is the possibility of dependence among the relations. In particular, the relations between members of one pair of nodes may have an effect on the relations between members of another pair. This article develops a type of regression model to estimate such effects in the context of longitudinal and multivariate relational data, or other data that can be represented in the form of a tensor. The model is based on a general multilinear tensor regression model, a special case of which is a tensor autoregression model in which the tensor of relations at one time point are parsimoniously regressed on relations from previous time points. This is done via a separable, or Kronecker-structured, regression parameter along with a separable covariance model. In the context of an analysis of longitudinal multivariate relational data, it is shown how the multilinear tensor regression model can represent patterns that often appear in relational and network data, such as reciprocity and transitivity.

• 出版日期2015-9