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Probabilistic structural equations
We describe in this presentation how BayesiaLab can be used to use bayesian networks as a pragmatic alternative to Structural Equation Modeling, PLS and Path Analysis.
Here are the main steps of the workflow:
- Unsupervised learning to discover the direct probabilistic relations between the Manifest variables
- Variable clustering based on non linear measures to discover the Factors
- Multiple clustering to create a hidden variable for each Factor
- Unsupervised learning with Manifest and Factor variables
One case study is showing a possible application of probabilistic structural equations :


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