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- Comprehensive introduction to understand, construct, and analyze probabilistic networks
- Second Edition features six new sections covering such topics as structure learning and parameter tuning
- New appendix offers recommendations and solutions to common problems associated with model building
- Written specifically for practitioners of applied artificial intelligence
Part of the book series: Information Science and Statistics (ISS, volume 22)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Fundamentals
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Front Matter
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Model Construction
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Front Matter
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Model Analysis
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Bayesian Networks and Influence Diagrams: A Guide to Construction and Analysis, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive guide for practitioners who wish to understand, construct, and analyze intelligent systems for decision support based on probabilistic networks. This new edition contains six new sections, in addition to fully-updated examples, tables, figures, and a revised appendix. Intended primarily for practitioners, this book does not require sophisticated mathematical skills or deep understanding of the underlying theory and methods nor does it discuss alternative technologies for reasoning under uncertainty. The theory and methods presented are illustrated through more than 140 examples, and exercises are included for the reader to check his or her level of understanding. The techniques and methods presented for knowledge elicitation, model construction and verification, modeling techniques and tricks, learning models from data, and analyses of models have all been developed and refined on the basis of numerous courses that the authors have held for practitioners worldwide.
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“The monograph concentrates on intelligent systems for decision support based on probabilistic models, including Bayesian networks and influence diagrams. … This monograph provides a review of recent state affairs of probabilistic networks that can be useful for professionals, practitioners, and researchers from diverse fields of statistics and related disciplines. I think it can be used as a textbook in its own right for an upper level undergraduate course, especially for a reading course.” (Technometrics, Vol. 55 (2), May, 2013)
Authors and Affiliations
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Dept. Computer Science, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
Uffe B. Kjærulff
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Hugin Expert A/S, Aalborg, Denmark
Anders L. Madsen
About the authors
Uffe B. Kjærulff holds a PhD on probabilistic networks and is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Aalborg University. Anders L. Madsen of HUGIN EXPERT A/S holds a PhD on probabilistic networks and is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Aalborg University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bayesian Networks and Influence Diagrams: A Guide to Construction and Analysis
Authors: Uffe B. Kjærulff, Anders L. Madsen
Series Title: Information Science and Statistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5104-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-5103-7Published: 29 November 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-0029-9Published: 13 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-5104-4Published: 30 November 2012
Series ISSN: 1613-9011
Series E-ISSN: 2197-4128
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVIII, 382
Topics: Statistics and Computing/Statistics Programs, Probability and Statistics in Computer Science, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Artificial Intelligence, Operations Research, Management Science, Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes