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Lattices of functional dependences

Date: 
2015-08-31 14:00
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Name of External Lecturer: 
Peter Harremoes
Affiliation of External Lecturer: 
Copenhagen Bussiness College
One random variable may be a function of another random variable and this relation defines a lattice structure on the power set of random variables. Lattice theory is a well developed theory that can be used to give new insight into conditional independence, Bayesian networks and non-Shannon inequalities.
2015-08-27 12:38