Bayesian model averaging and model selection for Markov equivalence classes of acyclic digraphs

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2493-2519

  Madigan, David ^a   Andersson, Steen A ^b   Perlman, Michael D ^a   Volinsky, Chris T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian graphical model; Essential graph; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Markov equivalence; Model averaging; Model uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000220791     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929608831853     Document Type: Article

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