Graver basis for an undirected graph and its application to testing the beta model of random graphs

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 191-212

  Ogawa, Mitsunori ^a   Hara, Hisayuki ^b   Takemura, Akimichi ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Markov basis; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Rasch model; Toric ideal

Indexed keywords

MARKOV BASIS; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO METHOD; RANDOM GRAPHS; TORIC IDEALS; UNDIRECTED GRAPH;

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; STATISTICS;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 84872299065     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: 15729052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10463-012-0367-8     Document Type: Article

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