A unified method for checking compatibility and uniqueness for finite discrete conditional distributions

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 115-129

  Tian, Guo Liang ^a,b   Tan, Ming ^b   Ng, Kai Wang ^a   Tang, Man Lai ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

2 norm; Box constraints; Compatibility; Gibbs sampler; Kullback Leibler distance; Quadratic optimization with constraints

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CONCRETE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; RANDOM VARIABLES; STATISTICS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

2-NORM; BOX CONSTRAINTS; COMPATIBILITY; GIBBS SAMPLER; KULLBACK-LEIBLER DISTANCE; QUADRATIC OPTIMIZATION WITH CONSTRAINTS;

LINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 54349113563     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920802169586     Document Type: Article

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