An Accelerated Chow and Liu Algorithm: Fitting Tree Distributions to High Dimensional Sparse Data

Chow and Liu introduced an algorithm for fitting a multivariate distribution with a tree (i.e. a density model that assumes that there are only pairwise dependencies between variables) and that the graph of these dependencies is a spanning tree. The original algorithm is quadratic in the dimesion of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meila, Marina
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6676