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A Bayesian network (BN) is a tool to describe and analyze multivariate distributions. In biomedicine the main applications are in expert systems, in bioinformatics applications in genetics, and in identifying gene-regulatory networks, with a particular eye towards causal relationships.
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Cleophas, T.J., Zwinderman, A.H. (2013). Bayesian Networks. In: Machine Learning in Medicine. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6886-4_16
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