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Abstract: Fields like public health, public policy, and social science often want to quantify the degree of dependence between variables whose relationships take on unknown functional forms. Typically ...

Abstract: This paper elaborates on the ranked nodes method (RNM) that is used for constructing conditional probability tables (CPTs) for Bayesian networks consisting of a class of nodes called ranked ...