# Modelling Multivariate Data with Additive Bayesian Networks

## Documentation for package ‘abn’ version 1.3

- DESCRIPTION file.
- User guides, package vignettes and other documentation.

## Help Pages

buildscorecache | Build a cache of goodness of fit metrics for each node in a DAG, possibly subject to user defined restrictions
buildscorecache.mle | Build a cache of goodness of fit metrics based on Information Theoretic for each node in a DAG, possibly subject to user defined restrictions
compareDag | Compare two DAGs
discretization | Discretization of a Possibly Continuous Data Frame of Random Variables based on their distribution
entropyData | Computes an Empirical Estimation of the Entropy from a Table of Counts
essentialGraph | Plot an ABN graphic
ex0.dag.data | Synthetic validation data set for use with abn library examples
ex1.dag.data | Synthetic validation data set for use with abn library examples
ex2.dag.data | Synthetic validation data set for use with abn library examples
ex3.dag.data | Validation data set for use with abn library examples
ex4.dag.data | Valdiation data set for use with abn library examples
ex5.dag.data | Valdiation data set for use with abn library examples
ex6.dag.data | Valdiation data set for use with abn library examples
ex7.dag.data | Valdiation data set for use with abn library examples
expit | Expit, Logit and odds
expit_cpp | logit and logit functions
fitabn | Fit an additive Bayesian network model
fitabn.mle | Fit an additive Bayesian network model based on maximum likelihood estimation.
infoDag | Compute standard information for a DAG.
link.strength | A function that returns the strengths of the edge connections in a Bayesian Network learned form observational data.
logit | Expit, Logit and odds
logit_cpp | logit and logit functions
mb | Compute the Markov blanket
miData | Computes an Empirical Estimation of the Entropy from a Table of Counts
mostprobable | Find most probable DAG structure
odds | Expit, Logit and odds
or | Odd ratio from a table
pigs.vienna | Dataset related to diseases present in 'finishing pigs', animals about to enter the human food chain at an abattoir.
plotabn | Plot an ABN graphic
search.heuristic | A familly of heuristic algorithms that aims at finding high scoring directed acyclic graphs
search.hillclimber | Find high scoring directed acyclic graphs using heuristic search.
simulateabn | Simulate from an ABN network
simulateDag | Simulate DAGs
tographviz | Convert a dag into graphviz format
var33 | simulated dataset from a DAG comprising of 33 variables