Learning Large-Scale Bayesian Networks with the sparsebn Package

03/11/2017
by   Bryon Aragam, et al.
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Learning graphical models from data is an important problem with wide applications, ranging from genomics to the social sciences. Nowadays datasets typically have upwards of thousands---sometimes tens or hundreds of thousands---of variables and far fewer samples. To meet this challenge, we develop a new R package called sparsebn for learning the structure of large, sparse graphical models with a focus on Bayesian networks. While there are many existing packages for this task within the R ecosystem, this package focuses on the unique setting of learning large networks from high-dimensional data, possibly with interventions. As such, the methods provided place a premium on scalability and consistency in a high-dimensional setting. Furthermore, in the presence of interventions, the methods implemented here achieve the goal of learning a causal network from data. The sparsebn package is open-source and available on CRAN.

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