Learning the Bayesian network structure: Dirichlet prior versus data

Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, UAI 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 511-518

  Steck, Harald ^a  

^a Siemens Medical Solutions   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROXIMATION; BAYESIAN APPROACHES; BAYESIAN NETWORK STRUCTURE; DIRICHLET PRIOR; EMPIRICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; GRAPHICAL MODEL; MAIN EFFECT; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI; MODEL PARAMETERS; SAMPLE SIZES; STRUCTURE-LEARNING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; OPTIMIZATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 70349888140     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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