Identifiability of parameters in latent structure models with many observed variables

DOI10.1214/09-AOS689zbMath1191.62003arXiv0809.5032OpenAlexW1970935148WikidataQ56907151 ScholiaQ56907151MaRDI QIDQ1043732

Elizabeth S. Allman, Catherine Matias, John A. Rhodes

Publication date: 9 December 2009

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.5032

zbMATH Keywords

identifiabilityconditional independencecontingency tablenonparametric mixturealgebraic statisticslatent structurefinite mixturemultivariate Bernoulli mixture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Parametric inference (62F99) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Basic linear algebra (15A99) Nonparametric inference (62G99)

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