Course Material


o Lecture One: d-separation

Slides

Notes (PS Format)

Explanation of d-separation and Applet


o Lecture Two: Maps of Dependence and Independence

Slides

Notes (PS Format)


o Lecture Three: Quantifying Dependence

Slides

Notes (PS Format)


o The Monty Hall Problem

Believe it or not there are (many) Websites which discuss this week's homework problem. Here is a list of Links


Related Lectures

Series of Lectures on Causality


Conference at UW June 29 - July 3

Graphical Models and Bayesian Belief Networks


Glossary

Glossary of terms. (Maintained by Russ Almond.)


Bayesian Network Sites

TETRAD Website

Complex Systems Computation Group, Computer Science Department, University of Helsinki

A Bayesian Network Course I taught in Finland

TETRAD Bayes Net Editor (Designed by Frank Wimberly)

Hugin Website

Microsoft Decision Theory and Adaptive Systems Group

Cognitive Systems Lab UCLA

Russ Almond's Bayesian Belief Net Page

Air Force Institute of Technology Bayesian Network Page

Network Demos at the NRC Institute for Information Technology (Ottawa).


Bayes' nets in the News

LA Times Article, October 1996 (Hosted by Hugin Website)
Among other things this article describes the use of Bayesian Networks in a number of Microsoft products, including trouble-shooting systems .

Lockheed News Release describing application of Bayesian Networks in Unmanned Underwater Vehicles.