Properties of monotonie effects on directed acyclic graphs

Journal of Machine Learning Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages 699-718

  Weele, Tyler J Vander ^a   Robins, James M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Conditional expectation; Covariance; Directed acyclic graphs; Effect modification; Monotonicity

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL EXPECTATION; COVARIANCE; DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPHS; EFFECT MODIFICATION; MONOTONICITY;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 64149089345     PISSN: 15324435     EISSN: 15337928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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