The learning

• Definitions
• The learning algorithm
  • General idea
  • The pruning of nodes
  • The algorithm
  
  
• The estimation of observed probabilities
  • Laplace's law of succession
  • The maximum likelihood estimate
  • Lidstone's law of succession
  • The natural law of succession
  
  
• Comparison of the probability distributions
  • The Kullback-Leibler divergence
  • The Matusita distance