Learning Bayesian belief networks with neural network estimators

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 578-584

  Monti, Stefano ^a   Cooper, Gregory F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; LEARNING ACCURACY; LEARNING PERFORMANCE; LEARNING SCHEMES; NEURAL NETWORK ESTIMATORS; PROBABILITY ESTIMATOR;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 26444594998     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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