68 citations · 287 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for
Showing 2017Show all
2 papers · 1 filter
math.ST2017
Maximum likelihood estimation of the Latent Class Model through model boundary decomposition
Elizabeth S. Allman, Hector Baños Cervantes, Robin Evans +5
The Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm is routinely used for the maximum likelihood estimation in the latent class analysis. However, the EM algorithm comes with no guarantees…
stat.ME2017★ 63 cited
Nested Markov Properties for Acyclic Directed Mixed Graphs
Thomas S. Richardson, Robin J. Evans, James M. Robins +1
Conditional independence models associated with directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) may be characterized in at least three different ways: via a factorization, the global Markov propert…