Course material

Literature

R. G. Cowell, A. P. Dawid, S. L. Lauritzen and D. J. Spiegelhalter, Probabilistic Networks and Expert Systems, Springer, New York, 1999. [PNS]

Dawid, A. P., Mortera, J., Pascali, V. P. and van Boxel, D. (2002). Probabilistic Expert Systems for Forensic Inference from Genetic Markers. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 29, 577-595.

S. L. Lauritzen, Lectures on Contingency Tables. 3rd ed. Department of Mathematics, Aalborg University. 1989. Electronic version 2002: http://www.math.auc.dk/~steffen/cont.pdf.

S. L. Lauritzen, Graphical Models, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996. [GM]

S. L. Lauritzen, The EM algorithm for Maximizing a Marginal Likelihood Function. Lecture Notes, 2000. [EM]

S. L. Lauritzen and N. A. Sheehan. Graphical models for genetic analyses. Research Report R-02-2020. Department of Mathematical Sciences, Aalborg University, 2002. To appear in Statistical Science. .ps-version. 

Mortera, J., Dawid, A. P. and Lauritzen. S. L. (2003). Probabilistic expert systems for DNA mixture profiling. Theoretical Population Biology 63, 191-205. pdf-reprint.

 

Software

HUGIN Lite 
WinBUGS 

Networks in HUGIN 6.2 format: paternity and mixtures.