Course Catalog - 2013-2014

     

STAT 648 - GRAPH MODELS & NETWORKS

Long Title: GRAPHICAL MODELS AND NETWORKS
Department: Statistics
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): STAT 431
Description: Graphical models – aka Bayes networks, Markov networks, Gaussian networks, etc. – have been widely used to represent complex phenomena with dependence. The course aims to stimulate interest in graphical models and covers directed and undirected graphical models, exponential-family representations of graphical models, statistical inference, finite-sample and large-sample properties, and applications.