We discuss directed acyclic graph (DAG) models to represent the indepen- dence structure of linear Gaussian systems with continuous variables: such models can be interpreted as a set of recursive univariate regressions. Then we consider Gaussian models in which one of the variables is not observed and we show how the incomplete log-likelihood of the observed data can be maximized using the EM. As the EM algorithm does not provide the matrix of the second derivatives we show how to get an explicit formula for the ob- served information matrix. We illustrate the utility of the models with two examples.

Pennoni, F. (2004). Fitting directed graphical Gaussian Models with one Hidden Variable. METODOLOSKI ZVEZKI, 1, 119-130.

Fitting directed graphical Gaussian Models with one Hidden Variable

PENNONI, FULVIA
2004

Abstract

We discuss directed acyclic graph (DAG) models to represent the indepen- dence structure of linear Gaussian systems with continuous variables: such models can be interpreted as a set of recursive univariate regressions. Then we consider Gaussian models in which one of the variables is not observed and we show how the incomplete log-likelihood of the observed data can be maximized using the EM. As the EM algorithm does not provide the matrix of the second derivatives we show how to get an explicit formula for the ob- served information matrix. We illustrate the utility of the models with two examples.
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Directed acyclic graph; linear Gaussian system; latent variable; EM algorithm; Information Matrix
English
2004
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119
130
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Pennoni, F. (2004). Fitting directed graphical Gaussian Models with one Hidden Variable. METODOLOSKI ZVEZKI, 1, 119-130.
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