Efficient estimation of missing information in causal inverted multiway trees

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 101-111

  Garside, G R ^a   Rhodes, P C ^a   Holmes, D E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CAUSAL NETWORKS; INVERTED MULTIWAY TREES; MAXIMUM ENTROPY; REASONING UNDER UNCERTAINTY;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032593221     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-7051(99)00002-7     Document Type: Article

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