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Latent free equivalent mDAGs

Robin J. Evans

Vol. 14 (2023), No. 1, 3–16
Abstract

We show that the marginal model for a discrete directed acyclic graph (DAG) with hidden variables is distributionally equivalent to another fully observable DAG model if and only if it does not induce any nontrivial inequality constraints.

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Keywords
Bayesian networks, directed acyclic graphs, distributional equivalence, latent variables, mixed graphs
Mathematical Subject Classification
Primary: 62H22
Milestones
Received: 14 September 2022
Revised: 18 May 2023
Accepted: 2 June 2023
Published: 28 November 2023
Authors
Robin J. Evans
Department of Statistics
University of Oxford
Oxford
United Kingdom