Re: Spirtes et al's book

Marco Ramoni (m.ramoni@open.ac.uk)
Sat, 21 Nov 1998 02:05:58 +0000

The following program is for free and, as far as I remeber, it uses a
constraint-based (conditional independence test) approach:

BNPC: Belief Network Power Constructor, version 1.0 Beta
http://193.61.148.131/jcheng/bnpc.htm

Marco

Denver Dash wrote:

> Rich Neapolitan wrote:
> >
> > I've heard that Spirtes, Glymour, and Scheines book `Causation,Prediction,
> > and Chance' is available free to download from somewhere. If so, does
> > anyone know where? Also, is there's or anyone's causal learning system
> > available free for student use?
> > Thanks,
> > Rich
>
> Yeah, the title is "Causation, Prediction, and Search" that may
> explain why you couldn't find it if you did a web search. The link
> is:
>
> http://hss.cmu.edu/html/departments/philosophy/TETRAD.BOOK/book.html
>
> As far as available software, there's probably alot available. Two
> that I know of offhand are below:
>
> Bayda, a naive bayesian classifier:
> http://www.cs.Helsinki.FI/research/cosco/Projects/NONE/SW/
>
> Bayesian Knowledge Discoverer, a more general bayesian learner
> (structure and parameters):
> http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/bkd/
>
> Both of these programs use a bayesian approach for learning. I don't
> know of any free software using the constraint-based (i.e. the
> techniques used in Causation, Predicition, and Search) approach.
>
> Best Regards,
> Denver.
> --
> Denver Dash (http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~ddash)
> Decision Systems Laboratory (http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dsl)
> Physics and Astronomy Dept.
> University of Pittsburgh