2013/02/13 by David Maxwell Chickering, Chickering, David Maxwell, David Heckerman +1
Computer Science · Mathematics · #Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models #Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference #Statistical Methods and Inference #cs.AI #cs.LG #stat.ML
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1302.3567
Appears in Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI1996)
arxiv created 2015/05/17 · arxiv updated 2015/05/19
We discuss Bayesian methods for learning Bayesian networks when data sets are incomplete. In particular, we examine asymptotic approximations for the marginal likelihood of incomplete data given a Bayesian network. We consider the Laplace approximation and the less accurate but more efficient BIC/MDL approximation. We also consider approximations proposed by Draper (1993) and Cheeseman and Stutz (1995). These approximations are as efficient as BIC/MDL, but their accuracy has not been studied in any depth. We compare the accuracy of these approximations under the assumption that the Laplace approximation is the most accurate. In experiments using synthetic data generated from discrete naive-Bayes models having a hidden root node, we find that the CS measure is the most accurate.