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Bayesian Networks, 2nd Edition
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Bayesian Networks, 2nd Edition

by Marco Scutari, Jean-Baptiste Denis
July 2021
Intermediate to advanced
274 pages
6h 50m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Glossary

Here we have collected some of the technical terms used within the book. For those terms referring to graph theory, Appendix A provides a short but comprehensive introduction to the field.

acyclic graph: An acyclic graph is a graph without any cycle.

adjacent nodes: Two nodes are said to be adjacent when they are linked by an arc or an edge.

ancestor: An ancestor of a node is a node that precedes it within a directed path and therefore in the topological ordering of the graph.

arc: An arc is a directed link between two nodes, usually assumed to be distinct. Nodes linked by an arc have a direct parent-child relationship: the node on the tail of the arc is the parent node, the node on the head of the arc is the child node. A node can ...

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