Yang, EunhoRavikumar, PradeepAllen, Genevera I.Liu, Zhandong2016-10-212016-10-212015Yang, Eunho, Ravikumar, Pradeep, Allen, Genevera I., et al.. "Graphical Models via Univariate Exponential Family Distributions." <i>Journal of Machine Learning Research,</i> 16, (2015) JMLR: 3813-3847. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/91985">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/91985</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/91985Undirected graphical models, or Markov networks, are a popular class of statistical models, used in a wide variety of applications. Popular instances of this class include Gaussian graphical models and Ising models. In many settings, however, it might not be clear which subclass of graphical models to use, particularly for non-Gaussian and non-categorical data. In this paper, we consider a general sub-class of graphical models where the node-wise conditional distributions arise from exponential families. This allows us to derive multivariate graphical model distributions from univariate exponential family distributions, such as the Poisson, negative binomial, and exponential distributions. Our key contributions include a class of M-estimators to fit these graphical model distributions; and rigorous statistical analysis showing that these M-estimators recover the true graphical model structure exactly, with high probability. We provide examples of genomic and proteomic networks learned via instances of our class of graphical models derived from Poisson and exponential distributions.engThis is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by JMLR.Journal articlegraphical modelsmodel selectionsparse estimation