Don't forget about Diez's paper that proposes an extremely useful in practice extension of Noisy-OR to Noisy-MAX gates:
F. J. D�ez. Parameter adjustment in BN's. The generalized noisy OR-gate, Proc. 9th Conference on Uncertainty in AI, Washington, DC, July 1993, pp. 99-105. Available in electronic format from: http://www.ia.uned.es/~fjdiez/papers/adjus-or.html. Cheers, Marek -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marek J. Druzdzel http://www.pitt.edu/~druzdzel --On Friday, February 07, 2003, 11:57 AM -0800 Charles Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's a generalization of noisy-or to non-binary variables > and arbitrary deterministic functions (i.e. noisy-f instead of > noisy-or): > > Srinivas, Sampath."A generalization of the noisy-or model". UAI-93. > San Franciso: Morgan Kaufmann. > On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 05:56 PM, Sean Li wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> Could anybody give me some pointers to the work of the Noise or >> assumption >> applied to non-binary nodes in estimating conditional probabilities? >> Thank you very much.
