Binary Cumulant Varieties

Annals of Combinatorics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 229-250

  Sturmfels, Bernd ^a   Zwiernik, Piotr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

algebraic statistics; binary data; context specific independence; cumulants; hyperdeterminant; moments; secant variety; Segre variety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874651466     PISSN: 02180006     EISSN: 02193094     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00026-012-0174-1     Document Type: Article

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