Lectures on algebraic statistics

Bernd Sturmfels, Mathias Drton, Seth Sullivant

Publication date: 23 July 2008

Published in: Oberwolfach Seminars (Search for Journal in Brave)

mixture Gröbner bases tangent cone factor analysis graphical models contingency tables conditional independence log-linear models primary decomposition secant varieties likelihood equation Markov bases iterative proportional scaling Bayesian integrals hidden models joint varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to statistics (62-01) Gröbner bases; other bases for ideals and modules (e.g., Janet and border bases) (13P10) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to commutative algebra (13-01)

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