Conditional independence ideals with hidden variables
Commutative Algebra
2023-01-02 v3 Statistics Theory
Statistics Theory
Abstract
We study a class of determinantal ideals that are related to conditional independence (CI) statements with hidden variables. Such CI statements correspond to determinantal conditions on a matrix whose entries are probabilities of events involving the observed random variables. We focus on an example that generalizes the CI ideals of the intersection axiom. In this example, the minimal primes are again determinantal ideals, which is not true in general.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1901.03059,
title = {Conditional independence ideals with hidden variables},
author = {Oliver Clarke and Fatemeh Mohammadi and Johannes Rauh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.03059},
year = {2023}
}
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20 pages, 1 figure, 4 tables