Algebraic statistical models

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1273-1297

  Drton, Mathias ^a   Sullivant, Seth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Algebraic statistics; Computational algebraic geometry; Exponential family; Maximum likelihood estimation; Model invariants; Singularities

Indexed keywords

EID: 38549097237     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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