There's a coursera course on Probabilistic Graphical Models: https://www.coursera.org/course/pgm https://www.coursera.org/course/pgm I would guess that's more

There's a coursera course on Probabilistic Graphical Models: https://www.coursera.org/course/pgm https://www.coursera.org/course/pgm I would guess that's more approachable than a text book, but who knows.