Transactional network data arise in many fields. Although social network models have been applied to transactional data, these models typically assume binary relations between pairs of nodes. We develop a latent mixed membership model capable of modelling richer forms of transactional data....

Social network data represent the interactions between a group of social actors. Interactions between colleagues and friendship networks are typical examples of such data. The latent space model for social network data locates each actor in a network in a latent (social) space and models the...

We consider the problem of Gaussian regression (possibly in a high- dimensional setting) when the noise variance is unknown. We propose a procedure which selects within any collection of estimators, an estimator hatf that nearly achieves the best bias/variance trade off. This selection procedure...