Assessing Priors for Bayesian Networks

We need the?(xi,pai) for each node xj

• We can use initial parameters ?0 as prior information

  • Need also an equivalent sample size parameter M0
  • Then, we let ?(xi,pai) = M0?P(xi,pai|?0)

• This allows to update a network using new data

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