Statistical Inference in Context Specific Interaction Models for Contingency Tables

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 143-158

  HØjsgaard, SØren ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Conditional independence; Context specific independence; Contingency table; Decomposition; Graphical model; Hierarchical model; Iterative proportional scaling; Log linear model; Markov property

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542267813     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2004.00378.x     Document Type: Article

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