- Journal of Turkish Operations Management
- Vol: 7 Issue: 1
- The Inference of Complicated Networks by Mutual Information
The Inference of Complicated Networks by Mutual Information
Authors : Hajar Farnoudkia
Pages : 1591-1595
Doi:10.56554/jtom.1257656
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Publication Date : 2023-06-30
Article Type : Research Article
Abstract :Unsupervised machine learning affords a general idea about complicated data using a graphical representation of networks by nodes and edges to provide a better and easier understanding of the data. The existence of an edge between two entire nodes is determined by their relationship in terms of any kind of dependence i.e., conditional dependence, linear and non-linear, directed or undirected. This study tries to show the accuracy of a non-parametric approach i.e., mutual information (MI) on a real data set named by the Rochdale data that is composed of eight factors that affected women’s economic activity by comparing with some methods such as reversible jump MCMC and birth-death MCMC those tried to detect the conditional dependence between the variables. As a result, MI is not only a very simple but also a very accurate method in the inference of data with complexities.Keywords : Conditional dependence, Gaussian Copula, Sahnnon Entropy, Mutual information.