Getting started in probabilistic graphical models
Quantitative Methods
2010-02-22 v2 Machine Learning
Physics and Society
Methodology
Machine Learning
Abstract
Probabilistic graphical models (PGMs) have become a popular tool for computational analysis of biological data in a variety of domains. But, what exactly are they and how do they work? How can we use PGMs to discover patterns that are biologically relevant? And to what extent can PGMs help us formulate new hypotheses that are testable at the bench? This note sketches out some answers and illustrates the main ideas behind the statistical approach to biological pattern discovery.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0706.2040,
title = {Getting started in probabilistic graphical models},
author = {Edoardo M Airoldi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.2040},
year = {2010}
}