Symmetry and lattice conditional independence in a multivariate normal distribution

DOI10.1214/aos/1028144848zbMath0943.62047OpenAlexW2050015934MaRDI QIDQ1807091

Jesper Madsen, Steen Arne Andersson

Publication date: 9 November 1999

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1028144848

zbMATH Keywords

likelihood ratio testmaximum likelihood estimatordistributive latticeconditional independencegroup symmetryorthogonal group representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multivariate distribution of statistics (62H10) Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12) Hypothesis testing in multivariate analysis (62H15) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01)

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