%0 Journal Article %T Maximum likelihood fitting of acyclic directed mixed graphs to binary data %A Robin J. Evans %A Thomas S. Richardson %J Computer Science %D 2012 %I arXiv %X Acyclic directed mixed graphs, also known as semi-Markov models represent the conditional independence structure induced on an observed margin by a DAG model with latent variables. In this paper we present the first method for fitting these models to binary data using maximum likelihood estimation. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.3479v1