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Addendum on the scoring of Gaussian directed acyclic graphical models

Jack Kuipers, Giusi Moffa, and David Heckerman

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Abstract

We provide a correction to the expression for scoring Gaussian directed acyclic graphical models derived in Geiger and Heckerman [Ann. Statist. 30 (2002) 1414–1440] and discuss how to evaluate the score efficiently.

Article information

Source
Ann. Statist., Volume 42, Number 4 (2014), 1689-1691.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 7 August 2014

Permanent link to this document
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aos/1407420013

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/14-AOS1217

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3262465

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1297.62122

Subjects
Primary: 62-07: Data analysis 62F15: Bayesian inference 62H99: None of the above, but in this section

Keywords
Gaussian DAG models Bayesian network learning BGe score

Citation

Kuipers, Jack; Moffa, Giusi; Heckerman, David. Addendum on the scoring of Gaussian directed acyclic graphical models. Ann. Statist. 42 (2014), no. 4, 1689--1691. doi:10.1214/14-AOS1217. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aos/1407420013


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