Particle methods are popular computational tools for Bayesian inference in nonlinear non-Gaussian state space models. For this class of models, we present two particle algorithms to compute the score vector and observed information matrix recursively. The first algorithm is implemented with...

We present Bayesian analyses of matrix-variate normal data with conditional independencies induced by graphical model structuring of the characterizing covariance matrix parameters. This framework of matrix normal graphical models includes prior specifications, posterior computation using Markov...

We introduce and exemplify an efficient method for direct sampling from hyper-inverse Wishart distributions. The method relies very naturally on the use of standard junction-tree representation of graphs, and couples these with matrix results for inverse Wishart distributions. We describe the...

The covariance between two variables in a multivariate Gaussian distribution is decomposed into a sum of path weights for all paths connecting the two variables in an undirected independence graph. These weights are useful in determining which variables are important in mediating correlation...