On compatible priors for bayesian networks

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 901-911

  Cowell, Robert G ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Dirichlet priors; Global independence; Kullback leibler distance; Local independence

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BAYESIAN NETWORK; DIRICHLET PRIORS; GLOBAL INDEPENDENCE; KULLBACK-LEIBLER DISTANCE; LOCAL INDEPENDENCE;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0030246184     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.537344     Document Type: Article

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