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most citedPartition MCMC for inference on acyclic digraphs

56 citations · 144 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.LG2025

Scaling Up Bayesian DAG Sampling

Daniele Nikzad, Alexander Zhilkin, Juha Harviainen +3

Bayesian inference of Bayesian network structures is often performed by sampling directed acyclic graphs along an appropriately constructed Markov chain. We present two techniques…

math.ST2025

The covariance of causal effect estimators for binary v-structures

Jack Kuipers, Giusi Moffa

Previously [Journal of Causal Inference, 10, 90-105 (2022)], we computed the variance of two estimators of causal effects for a v-structure of binary variables. Here we show that a…

math.ST2025

On a conjecture of Roverato regarding G-Wishart normalising constants

Ching Wong, Giusi Moffa, Jack Kuipers

The evaluation of G-Wishart normalising constants is a core component for Bayesian analyses for Gaussian graphical models, but remains a computationally intensive task in general.…

stat.ME2025★ 1 cited

A Latent Causal Inference Framework for Ordinal Variables

Martina Scauda, Jack Kuipers, Giusi Moffa

Ordinal variables, such as on the Likert scale, are common in applied research. Yet, existing methods for causal inference tend to target nominal or continuous data. When applied t…

stat.CO2024

Exact discovery is polynomial for certain sparse causal Bayesian networks

Felix L. Rios, Giusi Moffa, Jack Kuipers

Causal Bayesian networks are widely used tools for summarising the dependencies between variables and elucidating their putative causal relationships. By restricting the search to…

stat.ME2024

Correcting for confounding in longitudinal experiments: positioning non-linear mixed effects modeling as implementation of standardization using latent conditional exchangeability

Christian Bartels, Martina Scauda, Neva Coello +3

Non-linear mixed effects modeling and simulation (NLME M&S) is evaluated to be used for standardization with longitudinal data in presence of confounders. Standardization is a well…

stat.ME2024★ 1 cited

A new way to evaluate G-Wishart normalising constants via Fourier analysis

Ching Wong, Giusi Moffa, Jack Kuipers

The G-Wishart distribution is a core component for the Bayesian analysis of Gaussian graphical models as the conjugate prior for the precision matrix. Evaluating the marginal likel…

stat.ML2024★ 1 cited

Bayesian Causal Inference with Gaussian Process Networks

Enrico Giudice, Jack Kuipers, Giusi Moffa

Causal discovery and inference from observational data is an essential problem in statistics posing both modeling and computational challenges. These are typically addressed by imp…

stat.ML2023

A Bayesian Take on Gaussian Process Networks

Enrico Giudice, Jack Kuipers, Giusi Moffa

Gaussian Process Networks (GPNs) are a class of directed graphical models which employ Gaussian processes as priors for the conditional expectation of each variable given its paren…

stat.ME2022★ 2 cited

The interventional Bayesian Gaussian equivalent score for Bayesian causal inference with unknown soft interventions

Jack Kuipers, Giusi Moffa

Describing the causal relations governing a system is a fundamental task in many scientific fields, ideally addressed by experimental studies. However, obtaining data under interve…

stat.ML2021

High-Dimensional Inference in Bayesian Networks

Fritz M. Bayer, Giusi Moffa, Niko Beerenwinkel +1

Inference of the marginal probability distribution is defined as the calculation of the probability of a subset of the variables and is relevant for handling missing data and hidde…

stat.ML2021

The Dual PC Algorithm and the Role of Gaussianity for Structure Learning of Bayesian Networks

Enrico Giudice, Jack Kuipers, Giusi Moffa

Learning the graphical structure of Bayesian networks is key to describing data-generating mechanisms in many complex applications but poses considerable computational challenges.…

stat.ML2021★ 4 cited

Benchpress: A Scalable and Versatile Workflow for Benchmarking Structure Learning Algorithms

Felix L. Rios, Giusi Moffa, Jack Kuipers

Describing the relationship between the variables in a study domain and modelling the data generating mechanism is a fundamental problem in many empirical sciences. Probabilistic g…

stat.CO2021

Bayesian structure learning and sampling of Bayesian networks with the R package BiDAG

Polina Suter, Jack Kuipers, Giusi Moffa +1

The R package BiDAG implements Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods for structure learning and sampling of Bayesian networks. The package includes tools to search for a maximum…

stat.ME2020

Learning Bayesian Networks from Ordinal Data

Xiang Ge Luo, Giusi Moffa, Jack Kuipers

Bayesian networks are a powerful framework for studying the dependency structure of variables in a complex system. The problem of learning Bayesian networks is tightly associated w…

math.ST2020★ 1 cited

The Variance of Causal Effect Estimators for Binary V-structures

Jack Kuipers, Giusi Moffa

Adjusting for covariates is a well established method to estimate the total causal effect of an exposure variable on an outcome of interest. Depending on the causal structure of th…

stat.ML2018★ 5 cited

Efficient Sampling and Structure Learning of Bayesian Networks

Jack Kuipers, Polina Suter, Giusi Moffa

Bayesian networks are probabilistic graphical models widely employed to understand dependencies in high dimensional data, and even to facilitate causal discovery. Learning the unde…

stat.ML2015★ 56 cited

Partition MCMC for inference on acyclic digraphs

Jack Kuipers, Giusi Moffa

Acyclic digraphs are the underlying representation of Bayesian networks, a widely used class of probabilistic graphical models. Learning the underlying graph from data is a way of…

stat.ML2014★ 43 cited

Addendum on the scoring of Gaussian directed acyclic graphical models

Jack Kuipers, Giusi Moffa, David Heckerman

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…

stat.CO2012★ 20 cited

Uniform random generation of large acyclic digraphs

Jack Kuipers, Giusi Moffa

Directed acyclic graphs are the basic representation of the structure underlying Bayesian networks, which represent multivariate probability distributions. In many practical applic…

stat.ME2011★ 10 cited

Sequential Monte Carlo EM for multivariate probit models

Giusi Moffa, Jack Kuipers

Multivariate probit models (MPM) have the appealing feature of capturing some of the dependence structure between the components of multidimensional binary responses. The key for t…