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Two Roles for Bayesian Methods
Provides practical learning algorithms:
- Naive Bayes learning
- Bayesian belief network learning
- Combine prior knowledge (prior probabilities) with observed data
- Requires prior probabilities
Provides useful conceptual framework
- Provides ``gold standard'' for evaluating other learning algorithms
- Additional insight into Occam's razor
Don Patterson
2001-12-14