Re: [UAI] Graphical representation of CPTs in belief nets

From: David Madigan (madigan@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Feb 28 2000 - 08:21:28 PST

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    Rachel, Michael Friendly at York University:
    http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/friendly.html
    is doing wonderful work on visualizing
    categorical data.

    See also some earlier work that
    I did with Kris Mosurksi and Russell Almond:
    http://www.stat.washington.edu/tech.reports/explanation.ps

    Cheers, David

    - --- Rachel Cunningham <rachelc@cra.com> wrote:
    > Hello all,
    >
    > I work for a company that's trying to put together a
    > useful and
    > user-friendly (!) belief net application. This
    > involves representing a great
    > deal of probabilistic information--a priori
    > probabilities of nodes, actual
    > (current) probabilities of nodes, and conditional
    > probability tables (CPTs)
    > representing relationships between nodes. There is
    > also data entry
    > associated with all these values.
    >
    > Our research shows that the best existing
    > applications use histograms to
    > show most of these things when it's easy, but that
    > none have a friendly
    > interface for the entering or viewing of CPTs. Does
    > anyone know of other
    > work that is being done on this problem? Any
    > resources for graphical entry
    > of uncertain data in general? Any pointers would be
    > greatly appreciated.
    >
    > Regards,
    >
    > Rachel Cunningham
    >
    >
    > ---------------------------------------------
    > Rachel Cunningham (617) 491-3474 x519
    > Scientist rachelc@cra.com
    > Charles River Analytics http://www.cra.com
    > ---------------------------------------------
    >
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