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Conditional Probability Estimation

Abstract

This paper studies in particular an aspect of the estimation of conditional probability distributions by maximum likelihood that seems to have been overlooked in the literature on Bayesian networks: The information conveyed by the conditioning event should be included in the likelihood function as well.

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Authors

Marco E. G. V. Cattaneo

Topics

Artificial Intelligence > Bayesian & Probabilistic > Probabilistic Modeling Machine Learning > Bayesian & Probabilistic > Probabilistic Modeling Machine Learning > Optimization & Theory > Statistics

Keywords

maximum likelihood probability distribution conditional probability maximum likelihood estimation likelihood function bayesian network conditioning event
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