A divide-and-conquer algorithm for generating Markov bases of multi-way tables

Computational Statistics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 347-366

  Dobra, Adrian ^a   Sullivant, Seth ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingency tables; Decomposable graphical models; Disclosure limitation; Exact distributions; Gr bner bases; Markov bases

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544259366     PISSN: 09434062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03372101     Document Type: Article

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