Table 1.
Comparing the features of popular Bayesian network structure learning software.
| BANJO | BNT | Causal Explorer | Deal | LibB | PEBL | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Latest Version | 2.0.1 | 1.04 | 1.4 | 1.2-25 | 2.1 | 0.9.10 |
| License | Academic 1 | GPL | Academic 1 | GPL | Academic 1 | MIT |
| Scripting Language | Matlab 2 | Matlab | Matlab | R | N/A | Python |
| Application | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Interventional Data | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| DBN | Yes | Yes | No | no | No | No |
| Structural Priors | Yes 3 | No | No | no | no | Yes |
| Missing Data | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Parallel Execution | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
1
Custom academic, non-commercial license; not OSI approved.
2
Via a Matlab-Java bridge.
3
Only constraints/hard-priors supported.