Global identifiability of linear structural equation models

DOI10.1214/10-aos859zbMath1215.62052arXiv1003.1146WikidataQ57436299 ScholiaQ57436299MaRDI QIDQ116503

Seth Sullivant, Mathias Drton, Rina Foygel, Rina Foygel Barber, Mathias Drton, Seth Sullivant

Publication date: 1 April 2011

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.1146

zbMATH Keywords

parameter identificationcovariance matrixGaussian distributionmultivariate normal distributiongraphical model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear regression; mixed models (62J05) Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas (62H05) Applications of graph theory (05C90)

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