Sequential Model Criticism in Probabilistic Expert Systems

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 209-219

  Cowell, Robert G ^a   Spiegelhalter, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBABILITY;

PROBABILISTIC EXPERT SYSTEMS; PROBABILISTIC REASONING; QUALITATIVE GRPAHICAL STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0027557159     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.204903     Document Type: Article

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