"Dr. Lian Wen Zhang" wrote:
 > Can someone point me to papers on required sample size for
 > parameter and structure learning in Bayesian networks?

Stefano Monti 268-7019 writes:
 > @Article{dasgup97,
 >   author =    "Sanjoy Dasgupta",
 >   title =     "The Sample Complexity of Learning Fixed-Structure
 >                {B}ayesian Networks",
 >   journal =   "Machine Learning",
 >   year =      1997,
 >   volume =    29,
 >   number =    2,
 >   annote =    "Bayesian networks; PAC learning; sample complexity"
 > }
 > 
 > @InProceedings{friyak96,
 >   author =    "Nir Friedman and Zohar Yakhini",
 >   title =     "On the Sample Complexity of Learning {B}ayesian Networks",
 >   booktitle =  "Proceedings of the 12th Conference of Uncertainty in AI",
 >   year =      1996
 > }



See also

@InProceedings{Hoeffgen-COLT93,
  author =       "Klaus-U. H{\"o}ffgen",
  title =        "Learning and Robust Learning of Product Distributions",
  pages =        "77--83",
  booktitle =    "Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference on
                 Computational Learning Theory",
  address =      "Santa Cruz, CA, USA",
  month =        jul,
  year =         "1993",
  publisher =    "ACM Press",
}

@InProceedings{LearnBN-UAI97,
  Author = "R. Greiner and A. Grove and D. Schuurmans",
  title = "Learning {Bayesian} Nets that Perform Well",
  booktitle =  "Proceedings of the 13th Conference of Uncertainty in AI",
  Year = 1997,
 }

(Proofs, etc, for the results in the LearnBN-UAI97 (will) appear in
  http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~greiner/BN-results.html#AccurateBN
)


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