Pairwise likelihood ratios for estimation of non-gaussian structural ecuation models

Journal of Machine Learning Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 111-152

  Hyvarinen, Aapo ^a   Smith, Stephen M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian network; Causality; Independent component analysis; Non Gaussianity; Structural ecuation model

Indexed keywords

CAUSALITY; DATA POINTS; FIRST-ORDER APPROXIMATIONS; FMRI DATA; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; NOISY DATA; NON-GAUSSIAN; NON-LINEAR MODEL; NONGAUSSIANITY; PAIRWISE LIKELIHOOD; TIME POINTS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 84873446677     PISSN: 15324435     EISSN: 15337928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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