A graphical model or probabilistic graphical model (PGM) or structured probabilistic model is a probabilistic model for which a graph expresses the conditional dependence structure between random variables. They are commonly used in probability theory, statistics—particularly Bayesian statistics—and machine learning. (Wikipedia)
Anactivecommunity ofresearchers developsandenhances algorithms that learn causal models from data, and this work has produced a series of impressivetechnicaladvances.