Separoids: a mathematical framework for conditional independence and irrelevance

DOI10.1023/A:1016734104787zbMath1314.68308OpenAlexW1494159069MaRDI QIDQ2349806

A. Philip Dawid

Publication date: 17 June 2015

Published in: Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1016734104787

zbMATH Keywords

Hilbert spacesubmodular functionlinear independencestatistical independencebelief functionnatural independenceirrelevanceseparoidjoin semilatticequalitative independenceorthogonal independencegraphoidprobabilistic independencepossibility functionbelief independencecovariance independencedirected Markovhyper-independencemeta-independenceorthogonoidstrong orthogonoidundirected Markovvariation independence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Hilbert and pre-Hilbert spaces: geometry and topology (including spaces with semidefinite inner product) (46C05) Reasoning under uncertainty in the context of artificial intelligence (68T37) Foundations of probability theory (60A99) Structure and representation theory of distributive lattices (06D05) Structure theory of lattices (06B05) Graph theory (05C99) Modular lattices, Desarguesian lattices (06C05) Semilattices (06A12)

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