“…BNs enjoy applications to numerous fields, but the focus of the current paper is on economics related fields applications, such as production economics (Hosseini and Barker, 2016), macroeconomics (Spiegler, 2016) and environmental resource economics (Xue et al, 2017). Applications of BNs can be found also in financial econometrics (Mele, 2017) banking and finance (Chong and Kluppelberg, 2018), credit scoring (Leong, 2016), insurance (Sheehan et al, 2017) and customer service (Cugnata et al, 2014) to name a few. Despite the plethora of applications of BNs, not many BN algorithms exist, and most importantly fewer are publicly available in free software environments, such as the statistical software R.…”