Hello ,

I want to model the competences using a Bayesian network .

In fact , I have specified the skills to be modeled and I have defined the causal links between them .Then, I have prepared a likert scale questionnaire( with a five-point scale) which covers these competences.

My question is how can i get the prior probability distribution of each competence from a likert scale data to feed the Bayesian network (that express the initial belief about the competence before some evidence is taken into account) ?

Thank you.