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Given A and B, C are independent of each other. Given A, B and C, D and E are independent of each other. What is the minimal number of parameters?

Assuming all variables $A, B, C, D,$ and $E$ are random binary variables. I come up with Bayes net: $D \rightarrow B \rightarrow A \leftarrow C \leftarrow E$ which has the minimal number of parameters ...
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Why do Bayesian algorithms work well with small datasets?

I read very often that Bayesian algorithms work well on small datasets. Why is that? I think it is because they might generalize more, but why is that? See also Investigating the use of Bayesian ...
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