Graphical Chain Models
Book chapter, 2006
This article reviews the early twentieth century origins of graphical models and outlines the subsequent major developments from path analysis and conditional independence to the use of graphical models in representing relations among random variables, and, more recently, chains of such multivariate relations.
path analysis
conditional independence
multivariate statistics
chain graphs
structural equation models
Author
Nanny Wermuth
University of Gothenburg
Chalmers, Mathematical Sciences
Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioral Science
1-3
9780470860809 (ISBN)
Subject Categories (SSIF 2025)
Probability Theory and Statistics
DOI
10.1002/0470013192.bsa259