MARGINALIZATION AND CONDITIONING FOR LWF CHAIN GRAPHS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Sadeghi, Kayvan
• 署名单位: University of Cambridge
• 刊物名称: ANNALS OF STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0090-5364
• DOI: 10.1214/16-AOS1451
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 1792-1816
• 关键词: markov properties; models

摘要

In this paper, we deal with the problem of marginalization over and conditioning on two disjoint subsets of the node set of chain graphs (CGs) with the LWF Markov property. For this purpose, we define the class of chain mixed graphs (CMGs) with three types of edges and, for this class, provide a separation criterion under which the class of CMGs is stable under marginalization and conditioning and contains the class of LWF CGs as its subclass. We provide a method for generating such graphs after marginalization and conditioning for a given CMG or a given LWF CG. We then define and study the class of anterial graphs, which is also stable under marginalization and conditioning and contains LWF CGs, but has a simpler structure than CMGs.