Model validation

[ali]

Hi
What do you mean by free parameters in the formula Akaike’s Information Criterion?
Please explain with an example.
To what extent these two criteria have been proposed for the discrete case  of data so that the model is a good model?
Best regards,

[Anders L Madsen]

The number of free parameters in a discrete CPT is (n-1) * m, where n is the number of states in the child and m is the number of parent configurations.

You can find a lot of information on AIC and BIC by performing a few Google searches.

[ali]

thank you for your response!
I have trained the  structure model with NPC algorithm, and the variance and mean as follows:
µ          Ϭ
22.5       480.75
34.11   427.27
26.75   97.74
13.87   258.74
118.46   9226
How do you Evaluate the model with AIC=-2870 and BIC=-5325??
Best regards,

[Anders L Madsen]

You cannot compute the AIC and BIS scores from this information. See section 12.2 of the HUGIN API Reference Manual on how graphical models are scored.