Reinhard Furrer

varrank: an R package for variable ranking based on mutual information with applications to observed systemic datasets

2018 · arXiv (Cornell University)

This article describes the R package varrank. It has a flexible implementation of heuristic approaches which perform variable ranking based on mutual information. The package is particularly suitable for exploring multivariate datasets requiring a holistic …

Is a single unique Bayesian network enough to accurately represent your\n data?

2019 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Bayesian network (BN) modelling is extensively used in systems epidemiology.\nUsually it consists in selecting and reporting the best-fitting structure\nconditional to the data. A major practical concern is avoiding overfitting, on\naccount of its extreme flexibility and …