
In this article, we propose a new hypothesis testing method for directed acyclic graph (DAG). While there is a rich class of DAG estimation methods, there is a relative paucity of DAG inference solutions. Moreover, the existing methods often impose some specific model structures such as linear models or additive models, and assume independent data observations. Our proposed test instead allows the associations among the random variables to be nonlinear and the data to be time-dependent. We build the test based on some highly flexible neural networks learners. We establish the asymptotic guarantees of the test, while allowing either the number of subjects or the number of time points for each subject to diverge to infinity. We demonstrate the efficacy of the test through simulations and a brain connectivity network analysis.
FOS: Computer and information sciences, directed acrylic graph, Computer Science - Machine Learning, R01AG062542, Machine Learning (stat.ML), R01AG061303, Machine Learning (cs.LG), Hypothesis testing, EP/W014971/1, Statistics - Machine Learning, hypothesis testing, brain connectivity networks, generative adversarial networks, multilayer perceptron neural networks, CIF-2102227
FOS: Computer and information sciences, directed acrylic graph, Computer Science - Machine Learning, R01AG062542, Machine Learning (stat.ML), R01AG061303, Machine Learning (cs.LG), Hypothesis testing, EP/W014971/1, Statistics - Machine Learning, hypothesis testing, brain connectivity networks, generative adversarial networks, multilayer perceptron neural networks, CIF-2102227
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