Learning Structure

[borisrabin]

Hello ,

I went through the tutorial 15:Learning Structure .

I took for example the "retention.txt" data set.

Data -> Learn New Network - > pc (All by the example) but i get some new screen by the name : "Pattern Editor-PC" and when i pressed "Only Create Structure" i get the error "Pattern is not DAG...."

What is that screen and why i can not only get the structure from the data like the tutorial present ?

Another Question:
Supposing i got the Learned the Bayesian Network , can i store the result at Text file for using it later in my code?

Thanks in advance ,

Boris

[shooltz]

Data -> Learn New Network - > pc (All by the example) but i get some new screen by the name : "Pattern Editor-PC" and when i pressed "Only Create Structure" i get the error "Pattern is not DAG...."

What is that screen and why i can not only get the structure from the data like the tutorial present ?

The tutorial was written before we changed our PC implementation. The new implementation creates the structure from data, but the structure is not necessarily a directed acyclic graph (DAG) - it can contain cycles and/or uni- and bi-directional links. This structure must become a DAG before SMILE/GeNIe can use it to create a BN - this is the reason for the new dialog box.

Supposing i got the Learned the Bayesian Network , can i store the result at Text file for using it later in my code?

You can store it using any file format which is supported by SMILE. All of them are text-based.

[borisrabin]

Data -> Learn New Network - > pc (All by the example) but i get some new screen by the name : "Pattern Editor-PC" and when i pressed "Only Create Structure" i get the error "Pattern is not DAG...."

What is that screen and why i can not only get the structure from the data like the tutorial present ?

The tutorial was written before we changed our PC implementation. The new implementation creates the structure from data, but the structure is not necessarily a directed acyclic graph (DAG) - it can contain cycles and/or uni- and bi-directional links. This structure must become a DAG before SMILE/GeNIe can use it to create a BN - this is the reason for the new dialog box.

Supposing i got the Learned the Bayesian Network , can i store the result at Text file for using it later in my code?

You can store it using any file format which is supported by SMILE. All of them are text-based.

* What is the new structure represent?
* How can i build BN from my data (with this new structure representation ), when my main purpose is finding dependency between
attributes?
I attached DB for example.

Thanks,

Boris

[shooltz]

I attached DB for example.

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[borisrabin]

I attached DB for example.

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[mark]

* What is the new structure represent?
* How can i build BN from my data (with this new structure representation ), when my main purpose is finding dependency between
attributes?

The new structure denotes a direct dependency between variables when an edge exists, and edges are oriented if the algorithm could decide it should be. You can build a BN from this structure by creating a DAG out of it.

[borisrabin]

* What is the new structure represent?
* How can i build BN from my data (with this new structure representation ), when my main purpose is finding dependency between
attributes?

The new structure denotes a direct dependency between variables when an edge exists, and edges are oriented if the algorithm could decide it should be. You can build a BN from this structure by creating a DAG out of it.

Thanks for your answer,

My only purpose is to learn Bayesian Network from Database (Attached above) which represent dependency between attributes .
How i can do it directly without getting this intermediate stage ? Which algorithm i should choose ? maybe i need to discrete my variable ?

Thanks in advance ,
Boris

[mark]

PC is the only option for continuous data, otherwise you need to discretize.