Ntzoufras, Ioannis; Tarantola, Claudia - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 66 (2013) C, pp. 161-177
A conjugate and conditional conjugate Bayesian analysis is presented for bi-directed discrete graphical models, which are used to describe and estimate marginal associations between categorical variables. To achieve this, each bi-directed graph is re-expressed by a Markov equivalent, over the...