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    • Statistics
    • Machine Learning
    • Data Science

    Background:

    • Incomplete datasets with measurement errors or censored data are common in scientific research.
    • Existing methods struggle to accurately estimate true correlations under such conditions.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a probabilistic model for Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) with incomplete datasets.
    • To estimate true correlation coefficients by accounting for measurement errors and censored data.

    Main Methods:

    • Developed a probabilistic model for CCA with incomplete data.
    • Implemented a modified variational Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm for inference.
    • Approximated posterior distributions of latent variables as normal distributions.

    Main Results:

    • Empirically demonstrated the accuracy of the modified E-step approximation against hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) sampling.
    • The variational EM solution favorably compared to Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) and Markov Chain-EM solutions.
    • Achieved accuracy close to Markov Chain-EM while maintaining computational simplicity.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed variational EM algorithm provides an effective and computationally efficient method for CCA with incomplete data.
    • Successfully applied the algorithm to identify correlations between galaxy group properties and X-ray luminosity.