Characterizations of decomposable dependency models

  • Authors:
  • Luis M. de Campos

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación I.A., E.T.S. Ingeniería Informáca, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

Decomposable dependency models possess a number of interesting and useful properties. This paper presents new characterizations of decomposable models in terms of independence relationships, which are obtained by adding a single axiom to the well-known set characterizing dependency models that are isomorphic to undirected graphs. We also briefly discuss a potential application of our results to the problem of learning graphical models from data.