A Bayesian network is built from a set of variables aranged in an acyclic directed graph. For each variable, the conditional probability distribution of that variable given its parents in the graph. For a discrete network, this takes the form of a conditional probability table (CPT).
If the experts specify the table directly, the number of values to be specified is exponential in the number of parents. For this reason, various parametric forms for the conditional probability tables have been developed, in which the number of values to be specified is usually linear in the number of parents. This package collects R code for generating the CPTs for these various parametric forms.
The second type of tool contained in the package is tools for analyzing the output of Bayesian networks. This includes both graphs for displayig multiple conditional probabilities, and graphs for analyzing sequences of evidence.
The tools here were originally developed to be used with StatShop (a proprietary Bayes net scoring engine developed at ETS), but have been adapted to work with RNetica. There is no dependence on RNetica, the tools here could be easily used (perhaps with some minor adaptation) with other Bayesian network packages.
CPTtools and RNetica.
CPTtools is made available under the Artistic License, version 2.0.
The current version (0.8-1) is now fully debugged and contains a users manual. This version also has the new updated discrete partial credit models meant to work with the Peanut parameterized network package.
Also included in the new version are R datasets corresponding to ACED.
New with the 0.8 release is a method for the observable characteristic plots of Sinharay and Almond, OCP.
New with the 0.7 release is a method for the lattice
function barchart for Conditional Probabilty Frames.
Check it out
CPTtools is now released through R Universe. To get the latest version, execute the following R command:
install.packages("CPTtools",
repos=c(ralmond="https://ralmond.r-universe.dev",
cran="https://cloud.r-project.org"))
The latest verison is also now availabe at https://github.com/ralmond/CPTtools.
The latest stable version is available using:
devtools::install_github("ralmond/CPTtools")
The unstable version can be found by adding ref="working".
The following releases are archived here:
If you have patches or other correspondence about CPTtools you can contact me at russell.g.almond@gmail.com. If you are filing a bug report, please be sure to include:
The software is offered AS IS, without any warranty of any kind. Support is provided on a volunteer basis, and may not be immediately forthcoming.