Learning Bayesian networks from incomplete data: An efficient method for generating approximate predictive distributions

Proceedings of the Sixth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 130-140

  Riggelsen, Carsten ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DATA PROCESSING; DATA REDUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INCOMPLETE DATA; PARAMETER LEARNING; PREDICTIVE DISTRIBUTION;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 33745464487     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1137/1.9781611972764.12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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