HIW Sampler
Carlos Carvalho - Helénè Massam - Mike West

HIW Sampler is an implementation of an efficient, direct simulation methods for hyper-inverse Wishart distributions arising in Gaussian graphical models, as described and exemplified in

The code is in Matlab, and is used as in the example below. The data set used in the example in the above paper and this demo example is also in the download directory.

Files:

  • HIWcodeExample.m - a few Matlab commands to load the data and call the simulator.
  • HIWsim.m - the HIW simulation function.
  • HIWcodeData.mat - a Matlab workspace with the exchange rate data set from the example in the above paper, and two structures representing the graphical model.
  • rMNorm.m - support function to sample the multivariate normal.
  • meanOmegaHIW.m - support function to compute the mean of a precision matrix whose inverse is HIW distributed

The research and development underlying HIW Sampler was supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation (grants DMS-0102227 and 0342172). Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this work are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF or NIH.

This software is made freely available to any interested user. The authors can provide no support nor assistance with implementations beyond the details and examples here, nor extensions of the code for other purposes. The download has been tested to confirm all details are operational as described here.

It is understood by the user that neither the authors nor Duke University bear any responsibility nor assume any liability for any end-use of this software. It is expected that appropriate credit/acknowledgement be given should the software be included as an element in other software development or in publications.

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