Locally averaged Bayesian Dirichlet metrics for learning the structure and the parameters of Bayesian networks

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 526-540

  Cano, Andrés ^a   Gómez Olmedo, Manuel ^a   Masegosa, Andrés R ^a   Moral, Serafín ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bayesian metrics; Bayesian networks; Parameter estimation; Probabilistic graphical models; Structure learning

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN; LEARNING BAYESIAN NETWORKS; MARGINAL LIKELIHOOD; OPTIMUM SELECTION; PROBABILISTIC GRAPHICAL MODELS; ROBUST PERFORMANCE; STRUCTURE-LEARNING; THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SAMPLING;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 84875222001     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2012.09.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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