GraphicalModels

Graphicalmodelsareofincreasingimportanceinappliedstatistics,andinparticularindatamining.Providingaself-containedintroductionandoverviewtolearningrelational,probabilistic,andpossibilisticnetworksfromdata,thissecondeditionofGraphicalModelsisthoroughlyupdatedtoincludethelatestresearchinthisburgeoningfield,includinganewchapteronvisualization.Thetextprovidesgraduatestudents,andresearcherswithallthenecessarybackgroundmaterial,includingmodellingunderuncertainty,decompositionofdistributions,graphicalrepresentationofdistributions,andapplicationsrelatingtographicalmodelsandproblemsforfurtherresearch.