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LEARNING A CAUSAL MODEL FROM HOUSEHOLD SURVEY DATA BY USING A BAYESIAN BELIEF NETWORK

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00965448

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Abstract:

A Bayesian belief network (BBN) is a modeling and knowledge-representation structure used in artificial intelligence that consists of a graphical model depicting probabilistic relationships among variables of interest. This graphical model is a valuable tool for representing the causal relationships in a given set of variables. Because the number of possible BBNs for a given data set is exponential with respect to the number of variables, learning a BBN from data is a difficult and resource-consuming task. A greedy algorithm that automatically constructs a BBN from a data set of cases obtained from a household survey was implemented. The resulting BBN shows the dependencies among key variables that are associated with the trip-generation process.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1836, Initiatives in Information Technology and Geospatial Science for Transportation.

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

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Authors:

Torres, F J
Huber, M

Pagination:

p. 29-36

Publication Date:

2003

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 1836
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

0309085721

Features:

Figures (5) ; References (6) ; Tables (5)

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Subject Areas:

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

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TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Nov 7 2003 12:00AM

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