Bayesian Network - Definitions and Concepts

Definitions and Concepts

See also: Glossary of graph theory#Directed acyclic graphs

There are several equivalent definitions of a Bayesian network. For all the following, let G = (V,E) be a directed acyclic graph (or DAG), and let X = (Xv)v ∈ V be a set of random variables indexed by V.

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