Meeting 5 - Probabilistic Inference - 2/5/2009

In the fifth meeting we plan to review probabilistic inference and modeling, focusing on Bayesian methods, including Bayesian Inference, Bayesian Networks, and Markov Random Fields, time permitting.

These concepts are fundamental for understanding various Data Mining techniques. Jeff Bergman will be presenting and reviewing the paper, Techincal Introduction: A Primer on Probabilistic Inference.

An additional paper that is a good overview is David Heckerman's, A Tutorial on Learning With Bayesian Networks.