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Valid for year : 2003
 
TAMS22 Probability theory and Bayesian networks, 6 ECTS credits.
/Sannolikhetsteori och bayesianska nätverk/

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  Area of Education: Natural Sciences

Subject area: Mathematics

  Advancement level (A-D): C

Aim:
Introduction to the techniques and algorithms of graphical modelling in engineering and to causal models in probability

Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
A first course in probability theory, a first course in statistical inference

Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.

Organisation:
Lectures and computing laboratories

Course contents:
Uncertainty, causal networks and d-separation, rules of probability and conditional probability, Model building, learning, adaptation and tuning, belief updating, junction trees.

Course literature:
Warren J. Ewens and Gregory R. Grant, Statistical methods in Bioinformatics. An Introduction. Springer 2001.

Examination:
One written examination
Homework assignments
3,5 p
0,5 p
 



Course language is Swedish.
Department offering the course: MAI.
Director of Studies: Eva Enqvist
Examiner: Timo Koski
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Last updated: 01/27/2015