Total positivity in exponential families with application to binary variables

DOI10.1214/20-AOS2007zbMath1473.60046arXiv1905.00516OpenAlexW3191412046WikidataQ115517711 ScholiaQ115517711MaRDI QIDQ820806

Piotr Zwiernik, Caroline Uhler, Steffen L. Lauritzen

Publication date: 28 September 2021

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00516

zbMATH Keywords

exponential familiespositive dependenceIsing modelgraphical modelslog-supermodular distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multivariate analysis (62H99) Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Positive matrices and their generalizations; cones of matrices (15B48)

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