Extending pseudo-likelihood for Potts models

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 331-347

  Okabayashi, Saisuke ^a   Johnson, Leif ^a   Geyer, Charles J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional composite likelihood; Exponential family; Ising model; Maximum likelihood; Peeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650408262     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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