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This paper propose a novel decomposable graphical model to accommodate skew Gaussian graphical models. We encode conditional independence structure among the components of the multivariate closed skew normal random vector by means of a…
Recent works have shown an interest in investigating the frequentist asymptotic properties of Bayesian procedures for high-dimensional linear models under sparsity constraints. However, there exists a gap in the literature regarding…
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The performance of sparse matrix computation highly depends on the matching of the matrix format with the underlying structure of the data being computed on. Different sparse matrix formats are suitable for different structures of data.…