Stratified exponential families: Graphical models and model selection

DOI10.1214/aos/1009210550zbMath1012.62012OpenAlexW1849082027MaRDI QIDQ1848869

Christopher Meek, Dan Geiger, David Heckerman, Henry C. King

Publication date: 14 November 2002

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1009210550

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas (62H05) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Graphical methods in statistics (62A09)

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