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- Common statistical models like Gaussian, Bernoulli, and Multinomial distributions.
- Supervised learning tasks like regression and classification, and unsupervised clustering.
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Statistical hypothesis testing is an important tool for scientists to critically evaluate hypotheses using empirical data. It helps keep scientists honest by requiring them to statistically test their ideas rather than accepting them uncritically. One should be skeptical of any paper that claims an alternative hypothesis is supported without providing a statistical test. A key statistical test is the chi-square test, which compares observed data to expected frequencies under the null hypothesis. It calculates a test statistic and compares it to critical values in tables to determine if the null hypothesis can be rejected in favor of the alternative hypothesis. Proper use of statistical testing is part of the scientific method and moral imperative for scientists.
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Simple math for anomaly detection toufic boubez - metafor software - monito...tboubez
This is my presentation at Monitorama PDX in Portland on May 5, 2014
Simple math to get some signal out of your noisy sea of data
You’ve instrumented your system and application to the hilt. You can now “measure all the things”. Your team has set up thousands of metrics collecting millions of data points a day. Now what?
Most IT ops teams only keep an eye on a small fraction of the metrics they collect because analyzing this mountain of data and extracting signal from the noise is not easy. The choice of what analytic method to use ranges from simple statistical analysis to sophisticated machine learning techniques. And one algorithm doesn’t fit all data.
Statistical hypothesis testing is an important tool for scientists to critically evaluate hypotheses using empirical data. It helps keep scientists honest by requiring them to statistically test their ideas rather than accepting them uncritically. One should be skeptical of any paper that claims an alternative hypothesis is supported without providing a statistical test. A key statistical test is the chi-square test, which compares observed data to expected frequencies under the null hypothesis. It calculates a test statistic and compares it to critical values in tables to determine if the null hypothesis can be rejected in favor of the alternative hypothesis. Proper use of statistical testing is part of the scientific method and moral imperative for scientists.
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This document summarizes different reasoning methods for dealing with uncertainty, including:
1. Non-monotonic logic and reasoning methods like default logic that allow knowledge to be added or removed over time as new information is obtained.
2. Probabilistic methods like certainty factors, fuzzy logic, Bayesian belief networks, and Markov models that allow assigning degrees of belief or probability to hypotheses.
3. Evidence theory like Dempster-Shafer theory that extends probability theory by assigning belief intervals rather than single probabilities and combining independent evidence.
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from experience, build models of the environment from the acquired
knowledge, and use these models for prediction. Machine learning is
usually taught as a bunch of methods that can solve a bunch of
problems (see my Introduction to SML last week). The following
tutorial takes a step back and asks about the foundations of machine
learning, in particular the (philosophical) problem of inductive inference,
(Bayesian) statistics, and arti¯cial intelligence. The tutorial concentrates
on principled, uni¯ed, and exact methods.
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CmdStanPy allows pythonistas to add the power of Bayesian inference to their toolkit via a small set of functions and objects designed to use minimal memory and parallelize computation. Given a dataset and a statistical model written as a Stan program, CmdStanPy compiles the model, runs Stan’s MCMC sampler (via CmdStan) to obtain a sample from the posterior, and assembles this sample as a numpy nd-array or pandas.dataframe for downstream visualization and analysis.
Mitzi Morris is a member of the Stan development team and the developer of CmdStanPy ( https://mc-stan.org/about/team/ ).
She has worked as a software engineer in both academia and industry. She started out writing tools for Natural Language Processing in C and Java, then moved to genomics and biomedical informatics where she built pipelines for high-throughput sequencing electronic medical records data, all of which led to an increased interest in doing more and better statistics. She has been a Stan contributor since 2014 and joined the Stan team at Columbia in 2017.
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2. Key aspects of input data analysis include identifying appropriate time distributions from field data, generating random numbers, and producing random variates. Output data analysis considers non-terminating vs terminating processes, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing for model comparisons.
3. Common procedures for modeling input data include collecting field data, identifying a plausible distribution, estimating distribution parameters, and performing goodness-of-fit tests to validate the chosen distribution. Artificial data can also be generated if real data is unavailable or limited.
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Genetic algorithms are a search method that uses principles of natural selection and evolution to find optimal solutions to problems. They work by generating an initial population of random solutions, then selecting the fittest to breed a new generation by combining traits and mutating genes. This process is repeated until a satisfactory solution emerges. The eight queens problem can be solved using a genetic algorithm approach by representing board configurations as individuals, evaluating their fitness based on non-attacking queens, breeding the fittest to produce new configurations, and repeating until a solution is found with all queens non-attacking. Semantic networks represent knowledge through nodes and relationships like IS-A and HAS to model how concepts are related, allowing inference of new facts by traversing links
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This document discusses expert systems, including their architecture, examples, and challenges. It provides:
1) Expert systems attempt to model expert decision making in a limited domain using "if-then" rules and can be used for tasks like medical diagnosis.
2) Early expert systems like MYCIN used backward chaining to reason through rules and find all possible proofs to diagnose blood diseases, outperforming some doctors.
3) Capturing and representing an expert's knowledge as rules is difficult and not all domains are suitable for rule-based systems like chess. Representing uncertainty is also challenging.
A primer in Data Analysis. To substantiate the concepts, I presented Python code in the form of an ipython notebook (not included - get in touch for these, email and twitter are on the last slide).
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This document discusses testing for normality in statistical data. It describes comparing an actual data distribution to a theoretical normal distribution based on the data's mean and standard deviation. Several graphical and statistical tests for normality are presented, including Q-Q plots, Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests, and Shapiro-Wilk tests. Large p-values from these tests indicate the data are normally distributed, while small p-values show the data are non-normal. The document emphasizes that normality testing is more important for smaller sample sizes and provides guidelines for selecting an appropriate normality test.
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Neural networks can be used as generative models to model the distribution of data and generate new samples. When the data is incomplete, with missing values, maximum likelihood estimation is challenging as it requires marginalizing out the missing values. This leads to a log of a sum or integral that cannot be directly optimized. Variational inference addresses this by deriving a lower bound on the log likelihood, called the evidence lower bound (ELBO), that can be optimized instead. The ELBO is tight when the variational distribution approximates the true posterior distribution. The EM algorithm alternates between optimizing the variational distribution (E-step) and model parameters (M-step) to tighten the bound.
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Naive Bayes is a simple probabilistic classifier that applies Bayes' theorem with strong (naive) independence assumptions. It is often effective in practice even when the assumptions are not strictly true. The document discusses spam filtering, medical diagnosis, and digit recognition as example applications of Naive Bayes classification. It then explains the Bayes classifier, the naive independence assumptions, parameter estimation in Naive Bayes from training data, and performing classification on new examples by calculating conditional probabilities.
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Naive Bayes is a simple probabilistic classifier that applies Bayes' theorem with strong (naive) independence assumptions. It is often effective in practice even when the assumptions are not strictly true. The document discusses Naive Bayes classification for problems like spam filtering, medical diagnosis, and digit recognition. It explains how to estimate the model parameters from training data and make predictions by calculating the probabilities of each class given features. Cross-validation is recommended for evaluating model performance to avoid overfitting.
This document summarizes a research paper about random data perturbation techniques used to preserve privacy while still allowing useful data mining. It discusses how simply anonymizing records is not truly private, as the data can be re-identified by linking anonymous records to other publicly available information. The paper presents techniques like adding small random perturbations to the data or distributing the data across parties. It evaluates methods to recover distributions from perturbed data while preventing identification of individual records. Spectral filtering is proposed to separate meaningful data patterns from predictable noise properties, potentially breaking privacy protections.
This document summarizes a research paper about random data perturbation techniques used to preserve privacy while still allowing useful data mining. It discusses how simply anonymizing records is not truly private, as the data can be re-identified by linking anonymous records to other publicly available information. The paper presents techniques like adding small random perturbations to the data or distributing the data across parties. It evaluates methods to recover the original distribution from perturbed data while preserving individual privacy, such as using the eigen-properties of noise to filter it out. The discussion covers the trade-off between privacy and accuracy of data mining models on perturbed data.
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1. **Time Slots Allocation**: The core principle of TDM is to assign distinct time slots to each signal. During each time slot, the respective signal is transmitted, and then the process repeats cyclically. For example, if there are four signals to be transmitted, the TDM cycle will divide time into four slots, each assigned to one signal.
2. **Synchronization**: Synchronization is crucial in TDM systems to ensure that the signals are correctly aligned with their respective time slots. Both the transmitter and receiver must be synchronized to avoid any overlap or loss of data. This synchronization is typically maintained by a clock signal that ensures time slots are accurately aligned.
3. **Frame Structure**: TDM data is organized into frames, where each frame consists of a set of time slots. Each frame is repeated at regular intervals, ensuring continuous transmission of data streams. The frame structure helps in managing the data streams and maintaining the synchronization between the transmitter and receiver.
4. **Multiplexer and Demultiplexer**: At the transmitting end, a multiplexer combines multiple input signals into a single composite signal by assigning each signal to a specific time slot. At the receiving end, a demultiplexer separates the composite signal back into individual signals based on their respective time slots.
### Types of TDM
1. **Synchronous TDM**: In synchronous TDM, time slots are pre-assigned to each signal, regardless of whether the signal has data to transmit or not. This can lead to inefficiencies if some time slots remain empty due to the absence of data.
2. **Asynchronous TDM (or Statistical TDM)**: Asynchronous TDM addresses the inefficiencies of synchronous TDM by allocating time slots dynamically based on the presence of data. Time slots are assigned only when there is data to transmit, which optimizes the use of the communication channel.
### Applications of TDM
- **Telecommunications**: TDM is extensively used in telecommunication systems, such as in T1 and E1 lines, where multiple telephone calls are transmitted over a single line by assigning each call to a specific time slot.
- **Digital Audio and Video Broadcasting**: TDM is used in broadcasting systems to transmit multiple audio or video streams over a single channel, ensuring efficient use of bandwidth.
- **Computer Networks**: TDM is used in network protocols and systems to manage the transmission of data from multiple sources over a single network medium.
### Advantages of TDM
- **Efficient Use of Bandwidth**: TDM all
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Abduction
• Abduction is a reasoning process that tries to form plausible
explanations for abnormal observations
– Abduction is distinctly different from deduction and induction
– Abduction is inherently uncertain
• Uncertainty is an important issue in abductive reasoning
• Some major formalisms for representing and reasoning about
uncertainty
– Mycin’s certainty factors (an early representative)
– Probability theory (esp. Bayesian belief networks)
– Dempster-Shafer theory
– Fuzzy logic
– Truth maintenance systems
– Nonmonotonic reasoning
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Abduction
• Definition (Encyclopedia Britannica): reasoning that derives
an explanatory hypothesis from a given set of facts
– The inference result is a hypothesis that, if true, could
explain the occurrence of the given facts
• Examples
– Dendral, an expert system to construct 3D structure of
chemical compounds
• Fact: mass spectrometer data of the compound and its
chemical formula
• KB: chemistry, esp. strength of different types of bounds
• Reasoning: form a hypothetical 3D structure that satisfies the
chemical formula, and that would most likely produce the
given mass spectrum
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– Medical diagnosis
• Facts: symptoms, lab test results, and other observed findings
(called manifestations)
• KB: causal associations between diseases and manifestations
• Reasoning: one or more diseases whose presence would
causally explain the occurrence of the given manifestations
– Many other reasoning processes (e.g., word sense
disambiguation in natural language process, image
understanding, criminal investigation) can also been seen
as abductive reasoning
Abduction examples (cont.)
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Comparing abduction, deduction,
and induction
Deduction: major premise: All balls in the box are black
minor premise: These balls are from the box
conclusion: These balls are black
Abduction: rule: All balls in the box are black
observation: These balls are black
explanation: These balls are from the box
Induction: case: These balls are from the box
observation: These balls are black
hypothesized rule: All ball in the box are black
A => B
A
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B
A => B
B
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Possibly A
Whenever
A then B
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Possibly
A => B
Deduction reasons from causes to effects
Abduction reasons from effects to causes
Induction reasons from specific cases to general rules
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Characteristics of abductive
reasoning
• “Conclusions” are hypotheses, not theorems (may be
false even if rules and facts are true)
– E.g., misdiagnosis in medicine
• There may be multiple plausible hypotheses
– Given rules A => B and C => B, and fact B, both A and C
are plausible hypotheses
– Abduction is inherently uncertain
– Hypotheses can be ranked by their plausibility (if it can be
determined)
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Characteristics of abductive
reasoning (cont.)
• Reasoning is often a hypothesize-and-test cycle
– Hypothesize: Postulate possible hypotheses, any of which would
explain the given facts (or at least most of the important facts)
– Test: Test the plausibility of all or some of these hypotheses
– One way to test a hypothesis H is to ask whether something that is
currently unknown–but can be predicted from H–is actually true
• If we also know A => D and C => E, then ask if D and E are
true
• If D is true and E is false, then hypothesis A becomes more
plausible (support for A is increased; support for C is
decreased)
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Characteristics of abductive
reasoning (cont.)
• Reasoning is non-monotonic
– That is, the plausibility of hypotheses can
increase/decrease as new facts are collected
– In contrast, deductive inference is monotonic: it never
change a sentence’s truth value, once known
– In abductive (and inductive) reasoning, some
hypotheses may be discarded, and new ones formed,
when new observations are made
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Sources of uncertainty
• Uncertain inputs
– Missing data
– Noisy data
• Uncertain knowledge
– Multiple causes lead to multiple effects
– Incomplete enumeration of conditions or effects
– Incomplete knowledge of causality in the domain
– Probabilistic/stochastic effects
• Uncertain outputs
– Abduction and induction are inherently uncertain
– Default reasoning, even in deductive fashion, is uncertain
– Incomplete deductive inference may be uncertain
Probabilistic reasoning only gives probabilistic
results (summarizes uncertainty from various sources)
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Decision making with uncertainty
• Rational behavior:
– For each possible action, identify the possible outcomes
– Compute the probability of each outcome
– Compute the utility of each outcome
– Compute the probability-weighted (expected) utility
over possible outcomes for each action
– Select the action with the highest expected utility
(principle of Maximum Expected Utility)
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Bayesian reasoning
• Probability theory
• Bayesian inference
– Use probability theory and information about independence
– Reason diagnostically (from evidence (effects) to conclusions
(causes)) or causally (from causes to effects)
• Bayesian networks
– Compact representation of probability distribution over a set of
propositional random variables
– Take advantage of independence relationships
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Other uncertainty representations
• Default reasoning
– Nonmonotonic logic: Allow the retraction of default beliefs if they
prove to be false
• Rule-based methods
– Certainty factors (Mycin): propagate simple models of belief
through causal or diagnostic rules
• Evidential reasoning
– Dempster-Shafer theory: Bel(P) is a measure of the evidence for P;
Bel(P) is a measure of the evidence against P; together they define
a belief interval (lower and upper bounds on confidence)
• Fuzzy reasoning
– Fuzzy sets: How well does an object satisfy a vague property?
– Fuzzy logic: “How true” is a logical statement?
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Uncertainty tradeoffs
• Bayesian networks: Nice theoretical properties combined
with efficient reasoning make BNs very popular; limited
expressiveness, knowledge engineering challenges may
limit uses
• Nonmonotonic logic: Represent commonsense reasoning,
but can be computationally very expensive
• Certainty factors: Not semantically well founded
• Dempster-Shafer theory: Has nice formal properties, but
can be computationally expensive, and intervals tend to
grow towards [0,1] (not a very useful conclusion)
• Fuzzy reasoning: Semantics are unclear (fuzzy!), but has
proved very useful for commercial applications
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Outline
• Probability theory
• Bayesian inference
– From the joint distribution
– Using independence/factoring
– From sources of evidence
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Sources of uncertainty
• Uncertain inputs
– Missing data
– Noisy data
• Uncertain knowledge
– Multiple causes lead to multiple effects
– Incomplete enumeration of conditions or effects
– Incomplete knowledge of causality in the domain
– Probabilistic/stochastic effects
• Uncertain outputs
– Abduction and induction are inherently uncertain
– Default reasoning, even in deductive fashion, is uncertain
– Incomplete deductive inference may be uncertain
Probabilistic reasoning only gives probabilistic
results (summarizes uncertainty from various sources)
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Decision making with uncertainty
• Rational behavior:
– For each possible action, identify the possible outcomes
– Compute the probability of each outcome
– Compute the utility of each outcome
– Compute the probability-weighted (expected) utility
over possible outcomes for each action
– Select the action with the highest expected utility
(principle of Maximum Expected Utility)
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Why probabilities anyway?
• Kolmogorov showed that three simple axioms lead to the
rules of probability theory
– De Finetti, Cox, and Carnap have also provided compelling
arguments for these axioms
1. All probabilities are between 0 and 1:
• 0 ≤ P(a) ≤ 1
2. Valid propositions (tautologies) have probability 1, and
unsatisfiable propositions have probability 0:
• P(true) = 1 ; P(false) = 0
3. The probability of a disjunction is given by:
• P(a b) = P(a) + P(b) – P(a b)
ab
a b
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Probability theory
• Random variables
– Domain
• Atomic event: complete
specification of state
• Prior probability: degree
of belief without any other
evidence
• Joint probability: matrix
of combined probabilities
of a set of variables
• Alarm, Burglary, Earthquake
– Boolean (like these), discrete,
continuous
• (Alarm=True Burglary=True
Earthquake=False) or equivalently
(alarm burglary ¬earthquake)
• P(Burglary) = 0.1
• P(Alarm, Burglary) =
alarm ¬alarm
burglary 0.09 0.01
¬burglary 0.1 0.8
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Exercise: Inference from the joint
• Queries:
– What is the prior probability of smart?
– What is the prior probability of study?
– What is the conditional probability of prepared, given
study and smart?
• Save these answers for next time!
p(smart
study prep)
smart smart
study study study study
prepared 0.432 0.16 0.084 0.008
prepared 0.048 0.16 0.036 0.072
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Independence
• When two sets of propositions do not affect each others’
probabilities, we call them independent, and can easily
compute their joint and conditional probability:
– Independent (A, B) ↔ P(A B) = P(A) P(B), P(A | B) = P(A)
• For example, {moon-phase, light-level} might be
independent of {burglary, alarm, earthquake}
– Then again, it might not: Burglars might be more likely to
burglarize houses when there’s a new moon (and hence little light)
– But if we know the light level, the moon phase doesn’t affect
whether we are burglarized
– Once we’re burglarized, light level doesn’t affect whether the alarm
goes off
• We need a more complex notion of independence, and
methods for reasoning about these kinds of relationships
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Exercise: Independence
• Queries:
– Is smart independent of study?
– Is prepared independent of study?
p(smart
study prep)
smart smart
study study study study
prepared 0.432 0.16 0.084 0.008
prepared 0.048 0.16 0.036 0.072
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Conditional independence
• Absolute independence:
– A and B are independent if and only if P(A B) = P(A) P(B);
equivalently, P(A) = P(A | B) and P(B) = P(B | A)
• A and B are conditionally independent given C if and only if
– P(A B | C) = P(A | C) P(B | C)
• This lets us decompose the joint distribution:
– P(A B C) = P(A | C) P(B | C) P(C)
• Moon-Phase and Burglary are conditionally independent
given Light-Level
• Conditional independence is weaker than absolute
independence, but still useful in decomposing the full joint
probability distribution
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Exercise: Conditional independence
• Queries:
– Is smart conditionally independent of prepared, given
study?
– Is study conditionally independent of prepared, given
smart?
p(smart
study prep)
smart smart
study study study study
prepared 0.432 0.16 0.084 0.008
prepared 0.048 0.16 0.036 0.072
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Bayes’s rule
• Bayes’s rule is derived from the product rule:
– P(Y | X) = P(X | Y) P(Y) / P(X)
• Often useful for diagnosis:
– If X are (observed) effects and Y are (hidden) causes,
– We may have a model for how causes lead to effects (P(X | Y))
– We may also have prior beliefs (based on experience) about the
frequency of occurrence of effects (P(Y))
– Which allows us to reason abductively from effects to causes (P(Y |
X)).
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Bayesian inference
• In the setting of diagnostic/evidential reasoning
– Know prior probability of hypothesis
conditional probability
– Want to compute the posterior probability
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Simple Bayesian diagnostic reasoning
• Knowledge base:
– Evidence / manifestations: E1, …, Em
– Hypotheses / disorders: H1, …, Hn
• Ej and Hi are binary; hypotheses are mutually exclusive (non-
overlapping) and exhaustive (cover all possible cases)
– Conditional probabilities: P(Ej | Hi), i = 1, …, n; j = 1, …, m
• Cases (evidence for a particular instance): E1, …, Em
• Goal: Find the hypothesis Hi with the highest posterior
– Maxi P(Hi | E1, …, Em)
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Bayesian diagnostic reasoning II
• Bayes’ rule says that
– P(Hi | E1, …, Em) = P(E1, …, Em | Hi) P(Hi) / P(E1, …, Em)
• Assume each piece of evidence Ei is conditionally
independent of the others, given a hypothesis Hi, then:
– P(E1, …, Em | Hi) = m
j=1 P(Ej | Hi)
• If we only care about relative probabilities for the Hi, then
we have:
– P(Hi | E1, …, Em) = α P(Hi) m
j=1 P(Ej | Hi)
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Limitations of simple
Bayesian inference
• Cannot easily handle multi-fault situation, nor cases where
intermediate (hidden) causes exist:
– Disease D causes syndrome S, which causes correlated
manifestations M1 and M2
• Consider a composite hypothesis H1 H2, where H1 and H2
are independent. What is the relative posterior?
– P(H1 H2 | E1, …, Em) = α P(E1, …, Em | H1 H2) P(H1 H2)
= α P(E1, …, Em | H1 H2) P(H1) P(H2)
= α m
j=1 P(Ej | H1 H2) P(H1) P(H2)
• How do we compute P(Ej | H1 H2) ??
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Limitations of simple Bayesian
inference II
• Assume H1 and H2 are independent, given E1, …, Em?
– P(H1 H2 | E1, …, Em) = P(H1 | E1, …, Em) P(H2 | E1, …, Em)
• This is a very unreasonable assumption
– Earthquake and Burglar are independent, but not given Alarm:
• P(burglar | alarm, earthquake) << P(burglar | alarm)
• Another limitation is that simple application of Bayes’s rule doesn’t
allow us to handle causal chaining:
– A: this year’s weather; B: cotton production; C: next year’s cotton price
– A influences C indirectly: A→ B → C
– P(C | B, A) = P(C | B)
• Need a richer representation to model interacting hypotheses,
conditional independence, and causal chaining
• Next time: conditional independence and Bayesian networks!