Re: [graph-tool] Model Selection across Distributions

2020-11-30 Thread Tiago de Paula Peixoto
Am 30.11.20 um 22:39 schrieb Enrique Castaneda: In case I want to simply compare two models with unscaled discrete covariates: one using a geometric distribution and one using a binomial distribution. Can I perform model selection by simply comparing their state.entropy() values? Yes, in the c

Re: [graph-tool] Model Selection across Distributions

2020-11-30 Thread Enrique Castaneda
Hi Tiago, yes, I mean edge-covariates. In the example you referenced you compare state.entropy() for two distributions, i.e. exponential and log-normal, where for the log-normal model the covariates were scaled, which is handled by subtracting log(g.ep.weight.a).sum(). In case I want to simply co

Re: [graph-tool] Model Selection across Distributions

2020-11-30 Thread Tiago de Paula Peixoto
Am 30.11.20 um 10:29 schrieb kicasta: Hi all, I´d have a question regarding model selection with different distributions. When we want to decide the partition that best describes the data for a given distribution we go with that that gives the smallest entropy. However say we want to compare 2 d

[graph-tool] Model Selection across Distributions

2020-11-30 Thread kicasta
Hi all, I´d have a question regarding model selection with different distributions. When we want to decide the partition that best describes the data for a given distribution we go with that that gives the smallest entropy. However say we want to compare 2 different distributions d1 and d2 and th