Norges Teknisk-naturvitenskapelige Universitet Specifying a Gaussian Markov Random Field by a Sparse Cholesky Triangle Specifying a Gaussian Markov Random Field by a Sparse Cholesky Triangle
Norges Teknisk-naturvitenskapelige Universitet Specifying a Gaussian Markov Random Field by a Sparse Cholesky Triangle Specifying a Gaussian Markov Random Field by a Sparse Cholesky Triangle
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This note discusses the approach of specifying a Gaussian Markov random field (GMRF) by the Cholesky triangle of the precision matrix. A such representation can be made extremely sparse using numerical techniques for incomplete sparse Cholesky factorisation, and provide very computational efficient representation for simulating from the GMRF. However, we provide theoretical and empirical justification showing that the sparse Cholesky triangle representation is fragile when conditioning a GMRF on a subset of the variables or observed data, meaning that the computational cost increases.