BNLearn’s Documentation

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Bnlearn is for causal discovery using in Python!

• Contains the most-wanted Bayesian pipelines for Causal Discovery

• Simple and intuitive

• Focus on structure learning, parameter learning and inference.

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Support

Yes! This library is entirely free but it runs on coffee! :)

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Tip

• Detecting causal relationships using Bayesian Structure Learning in Python.

• Designing knowledge-driven models using Bayesian theorem.

• Chat with Your Dataset using Bayesian Inferences.

• The Power of Bayesian Causal Inference: A Comparative Analysis of Libraries to Reveal Hidden Causality in Your Dataset.

• Find the Best Boosting Model using Bayesian Hyperparameter Tuning but without Overfitting.

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Note

Your ❤️ is important to keep maintaining this package. You can support in various ways, have a look at the sponser page. Report bugs, issues and feature extensions at github page.

pip install bnlearn

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Contents

Quickstart

• Introduction
  • Structure Learning Algorithms
  • Constraint-based Structure Learning Algorithms
• Quickstart
  • Installation

Installation

• Installation
  • Install from PyPI (pip)
  • Install from GitHub
  • Create Environment
  • Uninstall
  • Validate Installation
  • Troubleshooting Import Errors

Discretizing

• Discretizing
• Manual Discretization
• Automatic Discretization: Probability Density
• Automatic Discretization: Principled Bayesian
  • Structure Learning
  • Parameter Learning
  • Making Inferences

Structure learning

• Causation
  • Probability theory
  • Structure learning
• Exhaustivesearch
• Hillclimbsearch
• Chow-liu
• Tree-augmented Naive Bayes (TAN)
• NaiveBayes
• Constraint-based

Parameter learning

• Parameter learning
  • Maximum Likelihood Estimation
  • Bayesian Parameter Estimation
• Parameter Learning Examples
  • Example 1: Sprinkler Dataset
  • Example 2: Asia Dataset
• Conditional Probability Distributions (CPD)

Inference

• Inference
• Inference Algorithms
• Examples Inference
  • Example (1)
  • Example (2)
  • Example (3)

Continuous Data

• Modelling Continuous Datasets
  • LiNGAM-based Methods
  • Direct-LiNGAM Method
  • ICA-LiNGAM Method
  • PC Method

Predict

• Predict

Synthetic Data

• Forward Sampling
• Gibbs Sampling

Plot

• Plotting
  • Interactive Plotting
  • Static Plotting
  • Network Comparison
  • Advanced Customization

Other functionalities

• Independence test
• Directed Acyclic Graphs
  • Build a DAG (Auto generated CPTs)
  • Build a DAG (Manual CPTs)
• Impute
  • KNN Imputer
  • MICE Imputer
• DataFrames
• Import DAG/BIF
• Export DAG/BIF
• Black and white lists
• Topological sort
• Data Conversions
  • Adjacency matrix
  • Vector
  • adjmat2vec
  • vec2adjmat
  • adjmat2dict
  • dag2adjmat
  • vec2df
• Structure Scores
• Saving and Loading

Examples

• Examples
• Working with Raw Data
  • Structure Learning Example
  • Parameter Learning Example
• Create a Bayesian Network, learn its parameters from data and perform the inference

Use Cases

• Titanic Dataset Analysis
• Medical Domain Analysis
  • Description
  • Importing Data
  • Making Inferences with Data and Expert Knowledge
• Use Case Continuous Datasets

Parameters and attributes

• bnlearn.structure_learning
  • fit()
• bnlearn.parameter_learning
  • Description
  • fit()
• bnlearn.inference
  • fit()
  • summarize_inference()
• bnlearn.bnlearn
  • adjmat2dict()
  • adjmat2vec()
  • build_cpts_from_structure()
  • check_model()
  • compare_networks()
  • compute_logp()
  • convert_edges_with_time_slice()
  • dag2adjmat()
  • df2onehot()
  • generate_cpt()
  • get_edge_properties()
  • get_node_properties()
  • get_parents()
  • has_valid_time_slice()
  • import_DAG()
  • import_example()
  • independence_test()
  • load()
  • make_DAG()
  • plot()
  • plot_graphviz()
  • predict()
  • print_CPD()
  • probs_rulebook()
  • query2df()
  • save()
  • structure_scores()
  • to_bayesiannetwork()
  • to_undirected()
  • topological_sort()
  • vec2adjmat()
  • vec2df()

Notebook Examples

• Notebook

Documentation

• Documentation

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page

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