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ABSTRACT
Bayesian networks are graphical structures for representing the probabilistic relationships among a large number of variables and doing probabilistic inference with those variables. The 1990's saw the emergence of excellent algorithms for learning Bayesian networks from passive data. In 2004 I unified this research with my text Learning Bayesian Networks. This tutorial is based on that text and my paper.

Neapolitan, R.E., and X. Jiang, "A Tutorial on Learning Causal Influences," in Holmes, D. and L. Jain (Eds.): Innovations in Machine Learning, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005.

I will discuss the constraint-based method for learning Bayesian networks using an intuitive approach that concentrates on causal learning. Then I will show a few real examples.

Bio:
Richard E. Neapolitan is Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Northeastern Illinois University. He has previously written three books including the seminal 1990 Bayesian network text Probabilistic Reasoning in Expert Systems. More recently, he wrote the 2004 text Learning Bayesian networks, and Foundations of Algorithms, which has been translated to three languages and is one of the most widely-used algorithms texts world-wide. His books have the reputation of making difficult concepts easy to understand because of the logical flow of the material, the simplicity of the explanations, and the clear examples.

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