Beyond Local Independence: High-Dimensional Latent Class Graphical Models with Shared Block Structure
超越局部独立:具有共享块结构的高维潜类别图模型
Latent class models are central tools for multivariate categorical data from heterogeneous populations, but their standard local-independence assumption is often unrealistic in modern high-dimensional applications. We propose a high-dimensional latent class graphical model for ordinal responses with block-structured local dependence. The model retains the interpretability and parsimony of classical latent class analysis by imposing a shared block partition of variables,…