TY - BOOK AU - Koller, Daphne AU - Friedman, Nir TI - Probabilistic graphical models: principles and techniques SN - 9780262013192 (hb.) U1 - 519.5420285 PY - 2009/// CY - United States of America PB - MIT Press KW - Graphical modeling (Statistics) KW - Mathematical statistics KW - Graphic methods N2 - Most tasks require a person or an automated system to reason—to reach conclusions based on available information. The framework of probabilistic graphical models, presented in this book, provides a general approach for this task. The approach is model-based, allowing interpretable models to be constructed and then manipulated by reasoning algorithms. These models can also be learned automatically from data, allowing the approach to be used in cases where manually constructing a model is difficult or even impossible. Because uncertainty is an inescapable aspect of most real-world applications, the book focuses on probabilistic models, which make the uncertainty explicit and provide models that are more faithful to reality ER -