Conditional independence of crossing array strips #
For a separately exchangeable array, the row strips along T and the column strips along S are
conditionally independent given their intersection S ×ˢ T whenever either index set
is infinite. Thus the two
families of strips used in the hidden/visible array decomposition are independent given
the entire hidden block, not merely given a directing measure.
When S and T are both infinite, a finite visible rectangle outside those hidden axes is
conditionally independent of every entry outside it given the union of the row and column strips.
This is the block form of the conditional cell-noise factorization: after the crossing strips have
been revealed, the rest of the array carries no further information about that visible block.
The same factorization holds for a jointly exchangeable array, with one infinite set S of hidden
indices serving both axes: a finite visible square I ×ˢ I, diagonal included, is conditionally
independent of every entry outside it given all entries in a hidden row or a hidden column.
References #
- The finite-observation argument is adapted from
TauCeti.Probability.SeparatelyExchangeable.condIndepFun_domRestrict_of_finite_reindexinginTauCeti.Probability.Exchangeability.Arrays.Block.Independence. - D. Aldous, "Representations for partially exchangeable arrays of random variables", Journal of Multivariate Analysis 11 (1981), 581–598.
- O. Kallenberg, Probabilistic Symmetries and Invariance Principles, Springer, 2005, Lemma 1.3 and Chapter 7.
Main results #
TauCeti.Probability.SeparatelyExchangeable.condIndepFun_rowStrip_colStrip— the two crossing strip families are conditionally independent given their intersection.TauCeti.Probability.SeparatelyExchangeable.condIndepFun_rowStrip_colStrip_of_enum— the same statement forℕ-indexed strips given an enumerated hidden block.TauCeti.Probability.SeparatelyExchangeable.condIndepFun_visibleBlock_compl— a finite visible rectangle is conditionally independent of its complement given the full crossing strips.TauCeti.Probability.JointlyExchangeable.condIndepFun_visibleBlock_compl— for a jointly exchangeable array, a finite visible square is conditionally independent of its complement given the crossing strips of one infinite hidden index set.
The row strips along T and the column strips along S are conditionally independent given
the entire intersection block whenever at least one of S and T is infinite.
Enumerated crossing strips are conditionally independent given the hidden block. Let e
and f enumerate hidden rows and hidden columns, at least one of them with infinite range. Then
the row strips (x (g i, f ·))ᵢ and the column strips (x (e ·, g' j))ⱼ are conditionally
independent given the ℕ × ℕ-indexed hidden block (x (e a, f b))_{a,b}, for arbitrary
g and g'. This is condIndepFun_rowStrip_colStrip for range e and range f, restated with
ℕ-indexed strips and block.
A finite visible rectangle is conditionally independent of its complement given the
crossing hidden strips. Let S and T be infinite sets of hidden row and column indices, and
let the finite sets I and J be disjoint from them. Once all entries in hidden rows or hidden
columns are known, the block I ×ˢ J is conditionally independent of every entry outside that
block.
The conditioning set is the full cross (univ ×ˢ T) ∪ (S ×ˢ univ), rather than only the finite
part of the cross adjacent to I ×ˢ J. This form can therefore be iterated over disjoint visible
blocks when constructing the cell-noise layer of an array representation.
A finite visible square of a jointly exchangeable array is conditionally independent of its
complement given the crossing hidden strips. Let S be an infinite set of hidden indices and let
the finite set I be disjoint from it. Once all entries in a hidden row or a hidden column are
known, the block I ×ˢ I is conditionally independent of every entry outside that block.
This is the jointly exchangeable form of SeparatelyExchangeable.condIndepFun_visibleBlock_compl,
with one set of hidden indices serving both axes. The block contains the diagonal entries (i, i)
and both orientations (i, j) and (j, i) of each visible off-diagonal cell, which is the cell
layer of the jointly exchangeable Aldous--Hoover representation.