Using weak prior information on structures to learn Bayesian networks

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4692 LNAI, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages 413-420

  Mascherini, Massimiliano ^a   Stefanini, Federico M ^b  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Prior information; Structural learning

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES;

DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPHS (DAG); GRAPH CONNECTIVITY; STRUCTURAL LEARNING;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 38049129764     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74819-9_51     Document Type: Conference Paper

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