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Theses and Dissertations--Statistics

2013

Sequential importance sampling

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Polytopes Arising From Binary Multi-Way Contingency Tables And Characteristic Imsets For Bayesian Networks, Jing Xi Jan 2013

Polytopes Arising From Binary Multi-Way Contingency Tables And Characteristic Imsets For Bayesian Networks, Jing Xi

Theses and Dissertations--Statistics

The main theme of this dissertation is the study of polytopes arising from binary multi-way contingency tables and characteristic imsets for Bayesian networks.

Firstly, we study on three-way tables whose entries are independent Bernoulli ran- dom variables with canonical parameters under no three-way interaction generalized linear models. Here, we use the sequential importance sampling (SIS) method with the conditional Poisson (CP) distribution to sample binary three-way tables with the sufficient statistics, i.e., all two-way marginal sums, fixed. Compared with Monte Carlo Markov Chain (MCMC) approach with a Markov basis (MB), SIS procedure has the advantage that it does not require …