A SINful approach to Gaussian graphical model selection

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1179-1200

  Drton, Mathias ^a   Perlman, Michael D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Acyclic directed graph; Chain graph; Concentration graph; Covariance graph; DAG; Graphical model; Multiple testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 37249059395     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2007.05.035     Document Type: Article

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