Re: [UAI] Measures of dependence between random variables

From: Jon Williamson (jon.williamson@kcl.ac.uk)
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 09:36:03 PDT

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    For more properties of mutual information in the context of Bayesian
    nets see
    http://www.kcl.ac.uk/philosophy.ai/2000/pai_jw_00_a.zip

    All the best,
    Jon Williamson

    Judea Pearl wrote:
    >
    > Prakash,
    > Shannon's mutual information has some nice and some
    > peculiar properties, see pages 321-323, Probabilistic Reasoning
    > (1988)
    > ==========Judea
    >
    > To: uai@cs.orst.edu
    > Subject: [UAI] Measures of dependence between random variables
    > From: "Prakash P. Shenoy" <pshenoy@ukans.edu>
    > Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 11:25:20 -0700
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    > Dear UAI colleagues,
    >
    > Could someone please point me to references on different measures of
    > dependence between random variables? I am familiar with
    > covariance/correlation coefficient that measures linear dependence between
    > variables. What else is out there that is being used by the Bayes net
    > learning community? Thanks in advance for the pointers.
    >
    > Prakash Shenoy
    > <pshenoy@ukans.edu> 

    -- 
Jon Williamson
Department of Philosophy, King's College, Strand, London WC2R 2LS,
England

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