Estimating a Single Data Point
Learn how we can estimate a single data point.
Before we calculate Norm
, let’s look at a straightforward case first. We’ll apply a variational method to approximate the distribution of a hidden variable analytically. Let’s say we have two binary variables, A
and B
. We know they’re not independent. A
is the parent node and B
is the child node whose conditional probability we try to estimate.
The following figure depicts this Bayesian network.
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