RT Journal Article
T1 Conditional Specification with Exponential Power Distributions
A1 Main Yaque, Paloma
A1 Navarro Veguillas, Hilario
AB The problem of modeling Bayesian networks with continuous nodes deals with discrete approximations and conditional linear Gaussian models. In this article we have considered the possibility of using the exponential power family as conditional probability densities. It will be shown that for some platikurtic conditional distributions in this family, conditional regression functions are constant. These results give conditions to avoid compatibility problems when distributions with lighter tails than the normal are used in the description of conditional densities to specify joint densities, like in Bayesian networks.
PB Marcel Dekker Inc.
SN 0361-0926
YR 2010
FD 2010-06-10
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42313
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42313
LA eng
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