Parameter priors for directed acyclic graphical models and the characterization of several probability distributions

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1412-1440

  Geiger, Dan ^a   Heckerman, David ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian network; Directed acyclic graphical model; Dirichlet distribution; Gaussian DAG model; Learning; Linear regression model; Normal distribution; Wishart distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036431552     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1035844981     Document Type: Article

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