3off2: A network reconstruction algorithm based on 2-point and 3-point information statistics

The reconstruction of reliable graphical models from observational data is important in bioinformatics and other computational fields applying network reconstruction methods to large, yet finite datasets. The main network reconstruction approaches are either based on Bayesian scores, which enable the ranking of alternative Bayesian networks, or rely on the identification of structural independencies, which correspond to missing edges in the underlying network.