Positivity in linear Gaussian structural equation models

DOI10.1214/26-EJS2493MaRDI QIDQ7235705zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Asad Lodhia, Jan-Christian Hütter, Caroline Uhler, Piotr Zwiernik

Publication date 29 April 2026

Published in Electronic Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://projecteuclid.org/journals/electronic-journal-of-statistics/volume-20/issue-1/Positivity-in-linear-Gaussian-structural-equation-models/10.1214/26-EJS2493.full

zbMATH Keywords

maximum likelihood estimationstructural equation modelpositive associationMarkov equivalenceconditonally increasing in sequence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Probabilistic graphical models (62H22)

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