A comparison of popular fertility awareness methods to a DBN model of the woman's monthly cycle

Proceedings of the 6th European Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models, PGM 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 219-226

  Lupińska Dubicka, Anna ^a   Druzdzel, Marek J ^a,b  

^a BIALYSTOK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC BAYESIAN NETWORKS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; REAL DATA SETS;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84874744555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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