贝叶斯学习,贝叶斯网络与数据采掘

自从50～60年代贝叶斯学派形成后,关于贝叶斯分析的研究久盛不衰。早在80年代,贝叶斯网络就成功地应用于专家系统,成为表示不确定性专家知识和推理的一种流行方法。90年代以来,贝叶斯学习一直是机器学习研究的重要方向。由于概率统计与数据采掘的

Bayesian Networks Construction and Their Applications in Data Mining

Recently Bayesian networks(BN)become a noticeable research direction in Data Mining,ln this paper we introduce the structure of Bayesian networks ,and the process of constructing a BN ,with the emphasis on the basic methods of learning from prior knowledge and sample data,using Bayesian learning approach,to identify the structures and probabilities of BN. The merits of Bayesian networks are that prior knowledge can be combined with observed data,which is important'especially when data is scarce or expensive ,that causal relationships among data can be learned ,and incomplete data set can be readily handled,which other models are disable to do so. It can foresee that Bayesian networks will become a powerful tools in Data Mining.