An asymptotic approximation of the marginal likelihood for general Markov models

Details An asymptotic approximation of the marginal likelihood for general Markov models An asymptotic approximation of the marginal likelihood for general Markov models

2010-12-03

arxiv.org/abs/1012.0753v1

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Statistics Theory

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The standard Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) is derived under regularity conditions which are not always satisfied by the graphical models with hidden variables. In this paper we derive the BIC score for Bayesian networks in the case of binary data and when the underlying graph is a rooted tree and all the inner nodes represent hidden variables. This provides a direct generalization of a similar formula given by Rusakov and Geiger for naive Bayes models. The main tool used in this paper is a connection between asymptotic approximation of Laplace integrals and the real log-canonical threshold.

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