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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good introduction, however focus on possibility, April 28, 2004
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This review is from: Graphical Models: Methods for Data Analysis and Mining (Hardcover)
The book gives a good, very deep introduction to the topic of Graphical models and data mining. The main focus is on the data mining section, thus the reader should have a basic knowledge about the graphical model concept. It is certainly not a beginner's book or a tutorial on graphical models or Bayesian networks. Furthermore the book is very mathematical with quite a lot of definitions, lemmas and proofs. A good knowledge in set theory is mandatory. However, the theory is very well explained and illustrated with simple examples.

At some points I would have been more interested in more practical issues, however this may be an engineers view. From my point of view, the main drawback of the book is the strong focus on possibility theory.

However, I highly recommend this book for everybody interested in Graphical Models and especially in reasoning with possibility theory instead of probability theory. The reader should bring a good mathematical background. Then the book does not only provide good examples, but a knowledge based on a strong mathematical formalism. This allows the reader to fully understand the topic. Reading this book takes time and a lot of effort, but you can certainly benefit more from it than from most other books about this topic.

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Graphical Models: Methods for Data Analysis and Mining
Graphical Models: Methods for Data Analysis and Mining by Christian Borgelt (Hardcover - March 15, 2002)
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