For more properties of mutual information in the context of Bayesian
nets see
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/philosophy.ai/2000/pai_jw_00_a.zip
All the best,
Jon Williamson
Judea Pearl wrote:
>
> Prakash,
> Shannon's mutual information has some nice and some
> peculiar properties, see pages 321-323, Probabilistic Reasoning
> (1988)
> ==========Judea
>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [UAI] Measures of dependence between random variables
> From: "Prakash P. Shenoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 11:25:20 -0700
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> Dear UAI colleagues,
>
> Could someone please point me to references on different measures of
> dependence between random variables? I am familiar with
> covariance/correlation coefficient that measures linear dependence between
> variables. What else is out there that is being used by the Bayes net
> learning community? Thanks in advance for the pointers.
>
> Prakash Shenoy
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--
Jon Williamson
Department of Philosophy, King's College, Strand, London WC2R 2LS,
England
