Mining and visualising ordinal data with non-parametric continuous BBNs

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 668-687

  Hanea, A M ^a   Kurowicka, D ^a   Cooke, R M ^a   Ababei, D A ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN; CONDITIONAL INDEPENDENCE STATEMENTS; CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPHS; GRAPHICAL MODEL; GRAPHICAL MODELLING; JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS; LARGE DATABASE; MARGINAL DISTRIBUTION; MULTIVARIATE DATA; NON-PARAMETRIC; ORDINAL DATA; PROBABILISTIC GRAPHICAL MODELS; PROBABILISTIC MODELLING; PROBABILITY DENSITIES;

DATA MINING; GRAPHIC METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 70549112629     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2008.09.032     Document Type: Article

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