In several domains it is common to have data from different, but closely related problems. For instance, in manufacturing
many products follow the same industrial process but with different conditions; or in industrial diagnosis, where there is
equipment with similar specifications. In these cases, it is common to have plenty of data for some scenarios but very little
for other. In order to learn accurate models for rare cases, it is desirable to use data and knowledge from similar cases;
a technique known as “transfer learning”. In this paper, we propose a transfer learning method for Bayesian networks, that
considers both, structure and parameter learning. For structure learning, we use conditional independence tests, by combining
measures from the target domain with those obtained from one or more auxiliary domains, using a weighted sum of the conditional
independence measures. For parameter learning, we compared two techniques for probability aggregation that combine probabilities
estimated from the target domain with those obtained from the auxiliary data. To validate our approach, we used three Bayesian
networks models that are commonly used for evaluating learning techniques, and generated variants of each model by changing
the structure as well as the parameters. We then learned one of the variants with a small data set and combined it with information
from the other variants. The experimental results show a significant improvement in terms of structure and parameters when
we transfer knowledge from similar problems.