Learning Bayesian networks with the bnlearn R Package

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1-22

  Scutari, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Conditional independence tests; Constraint based algorithms; R; Score based algorithms; Structure learning algorithms

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955124773     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v035.i03     Document Type: Article

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