Matrix representations and independencies in directed acyclic graphs

DOI10.1214/08-AOS594zbMath1162.62061arXiv0904.0333OpenAlexW3102916470MaRDI QIDQ1020988

Nanny Wermuth, Giovanni M. Marchetti

Publication date: 4 June 2009

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0333

zbMATH Keywords

conditional independencepartial closureedge matrixparent graphpartial inversionseparation criteriastepwise data generating process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multivariate analysis (62H99) Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas (62H05) Applications of graph theory (05C90) Graphs and linear algebra (matrices, eigenvalues, etc.) (05C50) Directed graphs (digraphs), tournaments (05C20)

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Uses Software

• ggm

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