Unifying Markov properties for graphical models

Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

Documents

  • AOS1618

    Final published version, 271 KB, PDF document

Several types of graphs with different conditional independence interpretations—also known as Markov properties—have been proposed and used in graphical models. In this paper, we unify these Markov properties by introducing a class of graphs with four types of edges—lines, arrows, arcs and dotted lines—and a single separation criterion. We show that independence structures defined by this class specialize to each of the previously defined cases, when suitable subclasses of graphs are considered. In addition, we define a pairwise Markov property for the subclass of chain mixed graphs, which includes chain graphs with the LWF interpretation, as well as summary graphs (and consequently ancestral graphs). We prove the equivalence of this pairwise Markov property to the global Markov property for compositional graphoid independence models.
Original languageEnglish
JournalAnnals of Statistics
Volume46
Issue number5
Pages (from-to)2251-2278
ISSN0090-5364
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

Number of downloads are based on statistics from Google Scholar and www.ku.dk


No data available

ID: 201166112