Matrix representations and independencies in directed acyclic graphs

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 961-978

  Marchetti, Giovanni M ^a   Wermuth, Nanny ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Conditional independence; Edge matrix; Parent graph; Partial closure; Partial inversion; Separation criteria; Stepwise data generating process

Indexed keywords

EID: 65349184108     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-AOS594     Document Type: Article

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