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Linear structural equation models postulate noisy linear relationships between variables of interest. Each model corresponds to a path diagram, which is a mixed graph with directed edges that encode the domains of the linear functions and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-16 Mathias Drton , Christopher Fox , Andreas Käufl , Guillaume Pouliot

In recursive linear models, the multivariate normal joint distribution of all variables exhibits a dependence structure induced by a recursive (or acyclic) system of linear structural equations. These linear models have a long tradition and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-03-04 Mathias Drton , Michael Eichler , Thomas S. Richardson

We consider graphical models based on a recursive system of linear structural equations. This implies that there is an ordering, $\sigma$, of the variables such that each observed variable $Y_v$ is a linear function of a variable specific…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-06-28 Y. Samuel Wang , Mathias Drton

This paper studies causal discovery for a directed acyclic graph under a structural equation model with additive heteroscedastic errors. We first establish new identifiability results for location-scale noise models, showing that…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-27 Xintao Xia , Li Chen , Yue Hu , Chunlin Li

We show how every stock-flow consistent model of the macroeconomy can be represented as a directed acyclic graph. The advantages of representing the model in this way include graphical clarity, causal inference, and model specification. We…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2014-09-17 Peter G. Fennell , David O'Sullivan , Antoine Godin , Stephen Kinsella

Given data sampled from a number of variables, one is often interested in the underlying causal relationships in the form of a directed acyclic graph. In the general case, without interventions on some of the variables it is only possible…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-05 Christopher Nowzohour , Peter Bühlmann

Kernel and linear regression have been recently explored in the prediction of graph signals as the output, given arbitrary input signals that are agnostic to the graph. In many real-world problems, the graph expands over time as new nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Arun Venkitaraman , Saikat Chatterjee , Bo Wahlberg

Linear structural equation models are multivariate statistical models encoded by mixed graphs. In particular, the set of covariance matrices for distributions belonging to a linear structural equation model for a fixed mixed graph $G=(V,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Bibhas Adhikari , Elizabeth Gross , Marc Härkönen , Elias Tsigaridas

In all structural models, the section or fiber response is a relation between the strain measures and the stress resultants. This relation can only be expressed in a simple analytical form when the material response is linear elastic. For…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 David Portillo , Bastian Oesterle , Rebecca Thierer , Manfred Bischoff , Ignacio Romero

A model of discrete spacetime on a microscopic level is considered. It is a directed acyclic dyadic graph. This is the particular case of a causal set. The goal of this model is to describe particles as some repetitive symmetrical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-05 Alexey L. Krugly

This paper studies the problem of recursively estimating the weighted adjacency matrix of a network out of a temporal sequence of binary-valued observations. The observation sequence is generated from nonlinear networked dynamics in which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-06 Yu Xing , Xingkang He , Haitao Fang , Karl Henrik Johansson

Max-linear Bayesian networks are recursive max-linear structural equation models represented by an edge weighted directed acyclic graph (DAG). The identifiability and estimation of max-linear Bayesian networks is an intricate issue as…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-11 Kamillo Ferry

Directed Acyclic Graphical (DAG) models efficiently formulate causal relationships in complex systems. Traditional DAGs assume nodes to be scalar variables, characterizing complex systems under a facile and oversimplified form. This paper…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-04-23 Tian Lan , Ziyue Li , Junpeng Lin , Zhishuai Li , Lei Bai , Man Li , Fugee Tsung , Rui Zhao , Chen Zhang

We study a notion of positivity of Gaussian directed acyclic graphical models corresponding to a non-negativity constraint on the coefficients of the associated structural equation model. We prove that this constraint is equivalent to the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-01 Asad Lodhia , Jan-Christian Hütter , Caroline Uhler , Piotr Zwiernik

The relationship between a response variable and its covariates can vary significantly, especially in scenarios where covariates take on extremely high or low values. This paper introduces a max-linear tail regression model specifically…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-24 Liujun Chen , Deyuan Li , Zhengjun Zhang

Recursive linear structural equation models are widely used to postulate causal mechanisms underlying observational data. In these models, each variable equals a linear combination of a subset of the remaining variables plus an error term.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-21 F. Richard Guo , Emilija Perković

In this article, we present an extension of the formulation recently developed by the authors (A Framework for Data-Driven Computational Mechanics Based on Nonlinear Optimization, arXiv:1910.12736 [math.NA]) to the structural dynamics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-25 Cristian Guillermo Gebhardt , Marc Christian Steinbach , Dominik Schillinger , Raimund Rolfes

A metric graph is a 1-dimensional stratified metric space consisting of vertices and edges or loops glued together. Metric graphs can be naturally used to represent and model data that take the form of noisy filamentary structures, such as…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-10 Fabrizio Lecci , Alessandro Rinaldo , Larry Wasserman

The paper considers the problem to estimate non-causal graphical models whose edges encode smoothing relations among the variables. We propose a new covariance extension problem and show that the solution minimizing the transportation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-15 Junyao You , Mattia Zorzi

The paper gives an overview of recent advances in structural equation modeling. A structural equation model is a multivariate statistical model that is determined by a mixed graph, also known as a path diagram. Our focus is on the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Mathias Drton