This was a fantastic introduction to PGM for a non-expert. It is well paced for an online course and the assignments provide enough depth to hone your knowledge and skills within the 5 week timeframe. Highly recommended.

All Programming Assignments are challenging (Bayesian net, Markov net/CRF, and decision making), but very essential to help understand how PGM works. I definitely will enroll the second course in this specialization.

Thank you! It's simply incredible exercise for brain! :-) The best ever course here, which teaches one to really think and model, rather than merely click to choose most plausible answer ( like other courses do )

Prof. Koller did a great job communicating difficult material in an accessible manner. Thanks to her for starting Coursera and offering this advanced course so that we can all learn...Kudos!!

Excellent course, the effort of the instructor is well reflected in the content and the exercices. A must for every serious student on (decision theory or markov random fields tasks.

The course was deep, and well-taught. This is not a spoon-feeding course like some others. The only downside were some "mechanical" problems (e.g. code submission didn't work for me).

Curso muy completo que da conocimiento realmente avanzado sobre modelos gráficos probabilísticos. Aviso, la especialización es complicada para los que no somos expertos del tema!

Sugerencia: Algunos de los ejemplos numéricos presentados en el curso podrían ir acompañados de alguna expresión matemática intermedia que facilite la comprensión de los mismos.

Superb exposition. Makes me want to continue learning till the very end of this course. Very intuitive explanations. Plan to complete all courses offered in this specialization.

Simply excellent. A wonderful course to begin the representation of PGM. Be advised.... this can get quite advanced. It's all about that Bayes, 'bout that Bayes.... no trouble.

learned a lot. lectures were easy to follow and the textbook was able to more fully explain things when I needed it. looking forward to the next course in the series.

Some parts are challenging enough in the PAs, if you are familiar with Matlab this course is a great opportunity to get familiar with PGMs and learn to handle these.

really great course! very clear and logical structure. I completed a graphical models course as part of my master's degree, and this really helped to consolidate it

Very well designed. There were areas here I struggled with the technical details and had to read up a lot to understand. The assignments are very well designed.

Excellent Course. Very Deep Material. I purchased the Text Book to allow for a deeper understanding and it made the course so much easier. Highly recommended

Great course. some programming assignments are tough (not too nicely worded and automatic grader can be a bit annoying) but all in all, great course

This subject covered in this course is very helpful for me who interested in inference methods, machine learning, computer vision, and optimization.

Great course, I miss some programming assignments (I didn't do the "honors"), but the quizzes are already good to test your general understanding.

This course is really good. It is well organized and taught in the best way which really helped me to implement similar ideas for my projects.

This course gives a solid basis for the understanding of PGMs. Don't take it too fast. It takes some time to get used to all the concepts.

I found well structured contend of these rare probabilistic methods (Actually this is the only reasonable course in this approach online)

Not as rigorous as the book, but very good. However, Octave should not be be necessary and is a road block to completing assignments.

One of the best courses which i visited.

The explanation was so simple and there were many examples which were so helpful for me

Really well structured course. The contents are complemented with the book. It is a time consuming course. Totally enjoyed!

An excellent course, Daphne is one of the top people to be teaching this topic and does an excellent job in presentation.