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Exact goodness-of-fit tests for Markov chains.

J Besag¹, D Mondal

¹Department of Statistics, Box 354322, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

|February 26, 2013

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This study introduces exact goodness-of-fit tests for Markov chains, overcoming limitations of standard methods. These tests are valuable for analyzing sequence data in various scientific fields.

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Area of Science:

Statistics
Computational Biology
Biophysics

Background:

Goodness-of-fit tests assess statistical model consistency with data.
Traditional chi-squared (χ²) asymptotics can fail due to small datasets or nonstandard statistics.
Markov chains are widely used for modeling sequential data.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop exact goodness-of-fit tests for first- and higher-order Markov chains.
To address limitations of asymptotic methods in Markov chain analysis.
To provide flexible testing for various sequence data types and statistics.

Main Methods:

Tests derived by conditioning on sufficient statistics for transition probabilities.
Implementation via simple Monte Carlo sampling or Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC).
Applicable to both single and multiple sequence analyses with user-defined test statistics.

Main Results:

Demonstrated utility in analyzing meteorological (dry/wet days) and biological (DNA) sequences.
Identified potential misleading results from standard analysis in a meteorological example.
Supported adequacy of second-order Markov chain for DNA sequence data.
Found strong evidence against a first-order reversible Markov chain for molecular dynamics data.

Conclusions:

Exact goodness-of-fit tests offer a robust alternative to asymptotic methods for Markov chains.
The proposed methods are versatile, applicable across diverse scientific domains.
These tests provide reliable model assessment, especially when data is limited or statistics are nonstandard.