Sparse nested Markov models with log-linear parameters

Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence - Proceedings of the 29th Conference, UAI 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 576-585

  Shpitser, Ilya ^a   Evans, Robin J ^b   Richardson, Thomas S ^c   Robins, James M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DIRECTED GRAPHS; GRAPHIC METHODS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CAUSAL INFERENCES; CONDITIONAL INDEPENDENCES; DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPH (DAG); EQUALITY CONSTRAINTS; LINEAR PARAMETERIZATIONS; LINEAR PARAMETERS; MARGINAL DENSITIES; SIMULATION STUDIES;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 84888162109     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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