The Construction of Multivariate Distributions from Markov Random Fields

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 199-220

  Kaiser, Mark S ^a   Cressie, Noel ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta conditionals; Conditional model specification; Hammersley Clifford theorem; Negpotential function; Positivity condition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001309334     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmva.1999.1878     Document Type: Article

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