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Koski, Timo; Noble, John M.
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Article
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2009
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Wiley
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This chapter introduces exponential families of distributions, focusing on links with convex analysis and specifically with the theory of conjugate duality. This is then applied to updating the probability distribution in a graphical model in the light of new information. One of the key features of