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Graphical models : representations for learning, reasoning and data mining / Christian Borgelt, Matthias Steinbrecher & Rudolf Kruse.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: Eng Series: Publication details: Chichester, West Sussex, UK : John Wiley, 2009.Edition: 2nd edDescription: viii, 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780470722107 (cloth)
  • 047072210X (cloth)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QA76.9.D343 B67 2009
Contents:
1. Introduction 2. Imprecision and Uncertainty 3. Decomposition 4. Graphical Representation 5. Computing Projections 6. Naive Classifiers 7. Learning Global Structure 8. Learning Local Structure 9. Inductive Causation 10. Visualization 11. Applications A. Proofs of Theorems B. Software Tools
Summary: Graphical models are of increasing importance in applied statistics, and in particular in data mining. Providing a self-contained introduction and overview to learning relational, probabilistic, and possibilistic networks from data, this second edition of Graphical Models is thoroughly updated to include the latest research in this burgeoning field, including a new chapter on visualization. The text provides graduate students, and researchers with all the necessary background material, including modelling under uncertainty, decomposition of distributions, graphical representation of distribution
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction
2. Imprecision and Uncertainty
3. Decomposition
4. Graphical Representation
5. Computing Projections
6. Naive Classifiers
7. Learning Global Structure
8. Learning Local Structure
9. Inductive Causation
10. Visualization
11. Applications
A. Proofs of Theorems
B. Software Tools

Graphical models are of increasing importance in applied statistics, and in particular in data mining. Providing a self-contained introduction and overview to learning relational, probabilistic, and possibilistic networks from data, this second edition of Graphical Models is thoroughly updated to include the latest research in this burgeoning field, including a new chapter on visualization. The text provides graduate students, and researchers with all the necessary background material, including modelling under uncertainty, decomposition of distributions, graphical representation of distribution

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