Latent free equivalent mDAGs

DOI10.2140/ASTAT.2023.14.3arXiv2209.06534OpenAlexW4389109686MaRDI QIDQ6192400FDOQ6192400

Authors:

Publication date: 12 February 2024

Published in: Algebraic Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that the marginal model for a discrete directed acyclic graph (DAG) with hidden variables is distributionally equivalent to another fully observable DAG model if and only if it does not induce any non-trivial inequality constraints.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06534

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian networkslatent variablesmixed graphsdirected acyclic graphsdistributional equivalence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probabilistic graphical models (62H22) Statistics on algebraic and topological structures (62Rxx)

Cites Work

• Semiparametric theory and missing data.
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Proposed experiment to test local hidden-variable theories
• Beyond Bell's theorem: correlation scenarios
• On the completeness of orientation rules for causal discovery in the presence of latent confounders and selection bias
• Independence properties of directed markov fields
• Bell inequalities for continuous-variable correlations
• Margins of discrete Bayesian networks
• Nested Markov properties for acyclic directed mixed graphs
• Graphs for margins of Bayesian networks

This page was built for publication: Latent free equivalent mDAGs

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q6192400)