Cumulative Distribution Networks: Inference, Estimation and Applications of Graphical Models for Cumulative Distribution Functions

This thesis presents a class of graphical models for directly representing the joint cumulative distribution function (CDF) of many random variables, called cumulative distribution networks (CDNs). Unlike graphical models for probability density and mass functions, in a CDN, the marginal probabilit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Huang, Jim C.
Other Authors: Frey, Brendan J.
Language:en_ca
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/19194