Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Graphs and Hypergraphs
2: Conditional Independence and Markov Properties
3: Contingency Tables
4: Multivariate Normal Models
5: Models for Mixed Data
6: Further topics
A Various Prerequisites
B Linear Algebra and Random Vectors
C The Multivariate Distribution
D Exponential Models

About the Author

Steffen L. Lauritzen is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Aalborg, Denmark and was previously Professor of Statistics at Oxford University.

Reviews

`...this is an excellent reference book for those who are interested in studying the mathematical theory for graphical models.'
Short Book Reviews, vol. 18, no. 1, April 1998