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Bayesian Networks
book

Bayesian Networks

by Marco Scutari, Jean-Baptiste Denis
June 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
241 pages
6h 20m
English
CRC Press
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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 ...
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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781482225587