Abstract
The iterative proportional fitting procedure (IPFP), introduced in 1937 by Kruithof, aims to adjust the elements of an array to satisfy specified row and column sums. Thus, given a rectangular non-negative matrix X 0 and two positive marginals a and b, the algorithm generates a sequence of matrices (X n)n≥0 starting at X 0, supposed to converge to a biproportional fitting, that is, to a matrix Y whose marginals are a and b and of the form Y = D 1X 0D 2, for some diagonal matrices D 1 and D 2 with positive diagonal entries.
When a biproportional fitting does exist, it is unique and the sequence (X n)n≥0 converges to it at an at least geometric rate. More generally, when there exists some matrix with marginal a and b and with support included in the support of X 0, the sequence (X n)n≥0 converges to the unique matrix whose marginals are a and b and which can be written as a limit of matrices of the form D 1X 0D 2.
In the opposite case (when there exists no matrix with marginals a and b whose support is included in the support of X 0), the sequence (X n)n≥0 diverges but both subsequences (X 2n)n≥0 and (X 2n+1)n≥0 converge.
In the present paper, we use a new method to prove again these results and determine the two limit-points in the case of divergence. Our proof relies on a new convergence theorem for backward infinite products ⋯M 2M 1 of stochastic matrices M n, with diagonal entries M n(i, i) bounded away from 0 and with bounded ratios M n(j, i)∕M n(i, j). This theorem generalizes Lorenz’ stabilization theorem. We also provide an alternative proof of Touric and Nedić’s theorem on backward infinite products of doubly-stochastic matrices, with diagonal entries bounded away from 0. In both situations, we improve slightly the conclusion, since we establish not only the convergence of the sequence (M n⋯M 1)n≥0, but also its finite variation.
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Namely \(\displaystyle {\sum _{i=1}^d U^\uparrow (d+1-i)V^\uparrow (i) \le \sum _{i=1}^d U(i)V(i) \le \sum _{i=1}^d U^\uparrow (i)V^\uparrow (i)}\) for every U and V in R d.
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We thank A. Coquio, D. Piau, G. Geenens, F. Pukelsheim and the referee for their careful reading and their useful remarks.
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Brossard, J., Leuridan, C. (2018). Iterated Proportional Fitting Procedure and Infinite Products of Stochastic Matrices. In: Donati-Martin, C., Lejay, A., Rouault, A. (eds) Séminaire de Probabilités XLIX. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 2215. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92420-5_3
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