Java: Data Science Made Easy

Bayesian networks

Bayesian networks, also known as Bayes nets or belief networks, are models designed to reflect a particular world or environment by depicting the states of different attributes of the world and their statistical relationships. The models can be used to show a wide variety of real-world scenarios. In the following diagram, we model a system depicting the relationship between various factors and our likelihood of being late to work:

Bayesian network

 

 

Each circle on the diagram represents a node or part of the system, which can have various values and probabilities for each value. For example, Power Outage might be true or ...