Markov equivalence for ancestral graphs
Abstract
Ancestral graphs can encode conditional independence relations that arise in directed acyclic graph (DAG) models with latent and selection variables. However, for any ancestral graph, there may be several other graphs to which it is Markov equivalent. We state and prove conditions under which two maximal ancestral graphs are Markov equivalent to each other, thereby extending analogous results for DAGs given by other authors. These conditions lead to an algorithm for determining Markov equivalence that runs in time that is polynomial in the number of vertices in the graph.
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@article{arxiv.0908.3605,
title = {Markov equivalence for ancestral graphs},
author = {R. Ayesha Ali and Thomas S. Richardson and Peter Spirtes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.3605},
year = {2009}
}
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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/08-AOS626 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)