Learning Bayesian Network classifiers by maximizing conditional likelihood

Proceedings, Twenty-First International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 361-368

  Grossman, Daniel ^a   Domingos, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLASSIFIERS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; SET THEORY;

BAYES CLASSIFIERS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY TABLES (CPT); DATASETS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 14344256569     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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