Discrete bayesian network classifiers: A survey

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Bielza, Concha ^a   Larrañaga, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bayesian multinets; Bayesian network; Feature subset selection; Generative and discriminative classifiers; Markov blanket; Naive Bayes; Supervised classification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFIERS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SURVEYS;

BAYESIAN MULTINETS; DISCRIMINATIVE CLASSIFIERS; FEATURE SUBSET SELECTION; MARKOV BLANKETS; NAIVE BAYES; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 84905815981     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: 15577341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2576868     Document Type: Review

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