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Evidence-invariant Sensitivity Bounds

Artificial Intelligence 2012-07-19 v1

Abstract

The sensitivities revealed by a sensitivity analysis of a probabilistic network typically depend on the entered evidence. For a real-life network therefore, the analysis is performed a number of times, with different evidence. Although efficient algorithms for sensitivity analysis exist, a complete analysis is often infeasible because of the large range of possible combinations of observations. In this paper we present a method for studying sensitivities that are invariant to the evidence entered. Our method builds upon the idea of establishing bounds between which a parameter can be varied without ever inducing a change in the most likely value of a variable of interest.

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@article{arxiv.1207.4170,
  title  = {Evidence-invariant Sensitivity Bounds},
  author = {Silja Renooij and Linda C. van der Gaag},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.4170},
  year   = {2012}
}

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Appears in Proceedings of the Twentieth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI2004)

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