Abstract for the talk on 25.04.2018 (09:00 h)
Seminar on Nonlinear AlgebraEliana Maria Duarte Gelvez (Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg)
Defining equations of probability tree models
Staged trees are a new and exciting class of statistical models that generalise the well known Bayesian Networks. In this talk I will explain the algebraic and statistical properties of these models and characterise the case in which they are toric varieties.