[Statlist] Talk on Friday, 23.7.2010, with Thomas Richardson, at 14.15h

[Cecilia Rey]

      Please note that the talk on Friday with Thomas Richardson will
      already start at 14.15h.

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ETH and University of Zurich

Proff. P. Buehlmann - L. Held -
H.R. Kuensch - M. Maathuis - S. van de Geer


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We are glad to announce the following talk

Friday, July 23, 2010,  *14.15h  *ETH HG G 19.1* *

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with Thomas Richardson, University of Washington, Seattle


Title:
Acyclic directed mixed graphs for binary data

Abstract:
Acyclic directed mixed graphs (ADMGs), also known as semi-Markov models, 
represent the conditional independence structure induced on an observed 
margin by a DAG model with latent variables. Ancestral graphs (without 
undirected edges) are a subclass of ADMGs. In this talk we first present 
a parametrization of these model for binary data. We then describe a 
maximum-likelihood fitting algorithm that may be used for scoring.


This abstract is also to be found under the following link:
http://stat.ethz.ch/talks/research_seminar


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