semidirected

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A form of semidirect — Neither unqualifiedly direct nor unqualifiedly indirect.

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Meanings

adjectivesemidirected (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparablemathematicsAlternative form of semidirect.

    We extend AMP chain graphs by (i) relaxing the semidirected acyclity constraint so that only directed cycles are forbidden, and (ii) allowing up to two edges between any pair of nodes.

    2015, Jose M. Peña, “Alternative Markov Properties for Acyclic Directed Mixed Graphs”, in arXiv

Origin

From semi- + directed.

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Chicago

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