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healthinsurance: healthinsurance Bayesian Network

Description

Discrete latent variables discovery and structure learning in mixed Bayesian networks.

Arguments

Value

An object of class bn.fit. Refer to the documentation of bnlearn for details.

Format

A conditional linear-Gaussian Bayesian network to predict health insurance charges. The DAG structure was taken from the referenced paper and the probabilities learned from data. The vertices are:

age

bmi

charges

children

(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

region

(northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest);

sex

(female, male);

smoker

(no, yes);

References

Peled, A., & Fine, S. (2021). Discrete Latent Variables Discovery and Structure Learning in Mixed Bayesian Networks. In 20th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (pp. 248-255). IEEE.