amalgamation {bnmonitor}

Amalgamation of levels

Description

Computation of the diameter of children conditional probability tables when levels of a variable are merged.

Usage

amalgamation(bnfit, node)

Arguments

bnfit

object of class bn.fit.

node

a node of bnfit

Value

A list where each entry refers to a child of node. For each child, the function reports the diameter resulting from the amalgamation of any pair of levels.

References

Leonelli, M., Smith, J. Q., & Wright, S. K. (2024). The diameter of a stochastic matrix: A new measure for sensitivity analysis in Bayesian networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.04667.

Examples

amalgamation(synthetic_bn, "y1")