Parameterizations and fitting of bi-directed graph models to categorical data

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 559-576

  Lupparelli, Monia ^a   Marchetti, Giovanni M ^b   Bergsma, Wicher P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complete hierarchical parameterizations; Connected set markov property; Constrained maximum likelihood; Covariance graphs; Marginal independence; Marginal log linear models; Multivariate logistic transformation; Variation independence

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949117705     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2008.00638.x     Document Type: Article

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