lava (version 1.4.7)

dsep.lvm: Check d-separation criterion

Description

Check for conditional independence (d-separation)

Usage

"dsep"(object, x, cond = NULL, return.graph = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

object

lvm object

x

Variables for which to check for conditional independence

cond

Conditioning set

return.graph

If TRUE the moralized ancestral graph with the conditioning set removed is returned

...

Additional arguments to lower level functions

Details

The argument 'x' can be given as a formula, e.g. x~y|z+v or ~x+y|z+v With everything on the rhs of the bar defining the variables on which to condition on.

Examples

m <- lvm(x5 ~ x4+x3, x4~x3+x1, x3~x2, x2~x1)
if (interactive()) {
plot(m,layoutType='neato')
}
dsep(m,x5~x1|x2+x4)
dsep(m,x5~x1|x3+x4)
dsep(m,~x1+x2+x3|x4)