max_weight_forest: Returns the undirected augmenting forest.

In bnclassify: Learning Discrete Bayesian Network Classifiers from Data

Returns the undirected augmenting forest.

Description

Uses Kruskal's algorithm to find the augmenting forest that maximizes the sum of pairwise weights. When the weights are class-conditional mutual information this forest maximizes the likelihood of the tree-augmented naive Bayes network.

Usage

max_weight_forest(g)

Arguments

g	A graph. The undirected graph with pairwise weights.

Details

If g is not connected than this will return a forest; otherwise it is a tree.

Value

A graph. The maximum spanning forest.

References

Friedman N, Geiger D and Goldszmidt M (1997). Bayesian network classifiers. Machine Learning, 29, pp. 131–163.

Murphy KP (2012). Machine learning: a probabilistic perspective. The MIT Press. pp. 912-914.

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