On sensitivity of the MAP Bayesian network structure to the equivalent sample size parameter

Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, UAI 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 360-367

  Silander, Tomi ^a   Kontkanen, Petri ^a   Myllymäki, Petri ^a  

^a HELSINKI INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORK STRUCTURE; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; MARGINAL LIKELIHOOD; MODEL SELECTION CRITERIA; NETWORK STRUCTURES; PARAMETER VALUES; SAMPLE DATA; SAMPLE SIZES; SCORING CRITERIA; SHOW THROUGH; SINGLE PARAMETER;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 70350678796     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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