Nested covariance determinants and restricted trek separation in Gaussian graphical models

DOI10.3150/19-BEJ1179zbMath1476.62119arXiv1807.07561MaRDI QIDQ2203613

Luca Weihs, Mathias Drton, Elina Robeva

Publication date: 7 October 2020

Published in: Bernoulli (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07561

zbMATH Keywords

covariance matrixopen problemsconditional independencegraphical modelVerma constrainttrek separation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12) Analysis of variance and covariance (ANOVA) (62J10) Probabilistic graphical models (62H22) Lists of open problems (00A27) Algebraic statistics (62R01)

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