# Covariance Estimation in Decomposable Gaussian Graphical Models

@article{Wiesel2010CovarianceEI,
title={Covariance Estimation in Decomposable Gaussian Graphical Models},
author={Ami Wiesel and Yonina C. Eldar and Alfred O. Hero},
journal={IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing},
year={2010},
volume={58},
pages={1482-1492}
}
• Published 6 March 2009
• Mathematics
• IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Graphical models are a framework for representing and exploiting prior conditional independence structures within distributions using graphs. In the Gaussian case, these models are directly related to the sparsity of the inverse covariance (concentration) matrix and allow for improved covariance estimation with lower computational complexity. We consider concentration estimation with the mean-squared error (MSE) as the objective, in a special type of model known as decomposable. This model…
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