Structuring causal tree models with continuous variables : Lei Xu Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Judea Pearl Cognitive Systems Laboratory, Computer Science Department, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90024-1600

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 57 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0888-613X
• DOI: 10.1016/0888-613x(88)90169-7

✦ Synopsis

Abstracts assumes marginal independence between inputs. This demonstrates that the importance of updating formulas can outweigh that of prior assumptions. Thus, when UISs are judged by their final accuracy after optimization, completely different results are obtained than when they are judged by whether or not their prior assumptions are perfectly satisfied.