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Although contextual weak independence (CWI) has shown promise in leading to more efficient probabilistic inference, no investigation has examined how CWIs can be obtained. In this paper, we suggest and analyze two methods for obtaining this kind of independence.
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Butz, C.J., Sanscartier, M.J. (2002). Acquisition Methods for Contextual Weak Independence. In: Alpigini, J.J., Peters, J.F., Skowron, A., Zhong, N. (eds) Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing. RSCTC 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2475. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45813-1_44
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