
arXiv: 2410.06223
Log-linear exponential random graph models are a specific class of statistical network models that have a log-linear representation. This class includes many stochastic blockmodel variants. In this paper, we focus on $β$-stochastic blockmodels, which combine the $β$-model with a stochastic blockmodel. Here, using recent results by Almendra-Hernández, De Loera, and Petrović, which describe a Markov basis for $β$-stochastic block model, we give a closed form formula for the maximum likelihood degree of a $β$-stochastic blockmodel. The maximum likelihood degree is the number of complex solutions to the likelihood equations. In the case of the $β$-stochastic blockmodel, the maximum likelihood degree factors into a product of Eulerian numbers.
Stochastic network models in operations research, beta-stochastic blockmodel, exponential random graph models, log-linear models, FOS: Mathematics, Mathematics - Statistics Theory, Commutative rings defined by binomial ideals, toric rings, etc., Statistics Theory (math.ST), maximum likelihood degree, Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies, Eulerian numbers, Algebraic statistics
Stochastic network models in operations research, beta-stochastic blockmodel, exponential random graph models, log-linear models, FOS: Mathematics, Mathematics - Statistics Theory, Commutative rings defined by binomial ideals, toric rings, etc., Statistics Theory (math.ST), maximum likelihood degree, Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies, Eulerian numbers, Algebraic statistics
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