R: The bn.fit class structure

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## The bn.fit class structure

### Description

The structure of an object of S3 class `bn.fit`.

### Details

An object of class `bn.fit` is a list whose elements correspond to the nodes of the Bayesian network. If the latter is discrete (i.e. the nodes are multinomial random variables), the object also has class `bn.fit.dnet`; each node has class `bn.fit.dnode` and contains the following elements:

- `node`: a character string, the label of the node.

- `parents`: a vector of character strings, the labels of the parents of the node.

- `children`: a vector of character strings, the labels of the children of the node.

- `prob`: a (multi)dimensional numeric table, the conditional probability table of the node given its parents.

Nodes encoding ordinal variables (i.e. ordered factors) have class `bn.fit.onode` and contain the same elements as `bn.fit.dnode` nodes. Networks containing only ordinal nodes also have class `bn.fit.onet`, while those containing both ordinal and multinomial nodes also have class `bn.fit.donet`.

If on the other hand the network is continuous (i.e. the nodes are Gaussian random variables), the object also has class `bn.fit.gnet`; each node has class `bn.fit.gnode` and contains the following elements:

- `node`: a character string, the label of the node.

- `parents`: a vector of character strings, the labels of the parents of the node.

- `children`: a vector of character strings, the labels of the children of the node.

- `coefficients`: a numeric vector, the linear regression coefficients of the parents against the node.

- `residuals`: a numeric vector, the residuals of the linear regression.

- `fitted.values`: a numeric vector, the fitted mean values of the linear regression.

- `sd`: a numeric value, the standard deviation of the residuals (i.e. the standard error).

Hybrid (i.e. conditional linear Gaussian) networks also have class `bn.fit.gnet`. Gaussian nodes have class `bn.fit.gnode`, discrete nodes have class `bn.fit.dnode` and conditional Gaussian nodes have class `bn.fit.cgnode`. Each node contains the following elements:

- `node`: a character string, the label of the node.

- `parents`: a vector of character strings, the labels of the parents of the node.

- `children`: a vector of character strings, the labels of the children of the node.

- `dparents`: an integer vector, the indexes of the discrete parents in `parents`.

- `gparents`: an integer vector, the indexes of the continuous parents in `parents`.

- `dlevels`: a list containing the levels of the discrete parents in `parents`.

- `coefficients`: a numeric matrix, the linear regression coefficients of the continuous parents. Each column corresponds to a configuration of the discrete parents.

- `residuals`: a numeric vector, the residuals of the linear regression.

- `fitted.values`: a numeric vector, the fitted mean values of the linear regression.

- `configs`: an integer vector, the indexes of the configurations of the discrete parents.

- `sd`: a numeric vector, the standard deviation of the residuals (i.e. the standard error) for each configuration of the discrete parents.

Furthermore, Bayesian network classifiers store the label of the training node in an additional attribute named `training`.

### Author(s)

Marco Scutari

[Package bnlearn version 4.6 Index]