| Preface | |
| Two Algorithms for Inducing Structural Equation Models from Data | p. 3 |
| Using Causal Knowledge to Learn More Useful Decision Rules from Data | p. 13 |
| A Causal Calculus for Statistical Research | p. 23 |
| Likelihood-based Causal Inference | p. 35 |
| Ploxoma: Testbed for Uncertain Inference | p. 47 |
| Solving Influence Diagrams Using Gibbs Sampling | p. 59 |
| Modelling and Monitoring Dynamic Systems by Chain Graphs | p. 69 |
| Propagation of Gaussian Belief Functions | p. 79 |
| On Test Selection Strategies for Belief Networks | p. 89 |
| Representing and Solving Asymmetric Decision Problems Using Valuation Networks | p. 99 |
| A Hill-Climbing Approach for Optimizing Classification Trees | p. 109 |
| Learning Bayesian Networks is NP-Complete | p. 121 |
| Heuristic Search for Model Structure: The Benefits of Restraining Greed | p. 131 |
| Learning Possibilistic Networks from Data | p. 143 |
| Detecting Imperfect Patterns in Event Streams Using Local Search | p. 155 |
| Structure Learning of Bayesian Networks by Hybrid Genetic Algorithms | p. 165 |
| An Axiomatization of Loglinear Models with an Application to the Model-Search Problem | p. 175 |
| Detecting Complex Dependencies in Categorical Data | p. 185 |
| A Comparative Evaluation of Sequential Feature Selection Algorithms | p. 199 |
| Classification Using Bayes Averaging of Multiple, Relational Rule-Based Models | p. 207 |
| Picking the Best Expert from a Sequence | p. 219 |
| Hierarchical Clustering of Composite Objects with a Variable Number of Components | p. 229 |
| Searching for Dependencies in Bayesian Classifiers | p. 239 |
| Statistical Analysis for Complex Systems in Biomedicine | p. 251 |
| Learning in Hybrid Noise Environments Using Statistical Queries | p. 259 |
| On the Statistical Comparison of Inductive Learning Methods | p. 271 |
| Dynamical Selection of Learning Algorithms | p. 281 |
| Learning Bayesian Networks Using Feature Selection | p. 291 |
| Data Representations in Learning | p. 301 |
| Rule Induction as Exploratory Data Analysis | p. 313 |
| Non-Linear Dimensionality Reduction: A Comparative Performance Analysis | p. 323 |
| Omega-Stat: An Environment for Implementing Intelligent Modelling Strategies | p. 333 |
| Framework for a Generic Knowledge Discovery Toolkit | p. 343 |
| Control Representation in an EDA Assistant | p. 353 |
| A Further Comparison of Simplification Methods for Decision-Tree Induction | p. 365 |
| Robust Linear Discriminant Trees | p. 375 |
| Tree Structured Interpretable Regression | p. 387 |
| An Exact Probability Metric for Decision Tree Splitting | p. 399 |
| Two Applications of Statistical Modelling to Natural Language Processing | p. 413 |
| A Model for Part-of-Speech Prediction | p. 423 |
| Viewpoint-Based Measurement of Semantic Similarity Between Words | p. 433 |
| Part-of-Speech Tagging from "Small" Data Sets | p. 443 |
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