Strategies for improving the modeling and interpretability of Bayesian networks

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 91-107

  de Santana, Ádamo L ^a   Francês, Carlos R ^a   Rocha, Cláudio A ^b   Carvalho, Solon V ^c   Vijaykumar, Nandamudi L ^c   Rego, Liviane P ^a   Costa, João C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^b Amazon University   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Knowledge discovery; Markov chains; Multivariate regression

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MARKOV PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

INTERPRETABILITY; KNOWLEDGE INTERPRETATION; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION; STRUCTURE LEARNING;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 34250310031     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2006.10.005     Document Type: Article

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