Probability distributions with summary graph structure

Bernoulli

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 845-879

  Wermuth, Nanny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Concentration graph; Directed acyclic graph; Endogenous variables; Graphical Markov model; Independence graph; Multivariate regression chain; Partial closure; Partial inversion; Triangular system

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960259320     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3150/10-BEJ309     Document Type: Article

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