Triangular systems for symmetric binary variables

Electronic Journal of Statistics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages 932-955

  Wermuth, Nanny ^a   Marchetti, Giovanni M ^b   Cox, D R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Graphical markov models; Linear in probability models; Log linear models; Recursive generating processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988687206     PISSN: 19357524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/09-EJS439     Document Type: Article

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