Parameter priors for directed acyclic graphical models and the characterization of several probability distributions

DOI10.1214/aos/1035844981zbMath1016.62064arXiv2105.03248OpenAlexW2950017290MaRDI QIDQ79791

David Heckerman, Dan Geiger, Dan Geiger, David Heckerman

Publication date: 1 October 2002

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03248

zbMATH Keywords

learningnormal distributionWishart distributionDirichlet distributionBayesian networklinear regression modeldirected acyclic graphical modelGaussian DAG model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas (62H05) Applications of graph theory (05C90) Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Directed graphs (digraphs), tournaments (05C20) Functional equations and inequalities (39B99)

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• elicit-normlin

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