Critical remarks on the maximal prime decomposition of Bayesian networks

  • Authors:
  • Cory J. Butz;Qiang Hu;Xue Dong Yang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Canada;Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Canada;Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Canada

  • Venue:
  • RSFDGrC'03 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Rough sets, fuzzy sets, data mining, and granular computing
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We present a critical analysis of the maximal prime decomposition of Bayesian networks (BNs). Our analysis suggests that it may be more useful to transform a BN into a hierarchical Markov network.