Pearl: probabilistic reasoning in intelligent systems

What changed

Integrated graphical independence and local belief propagation into a systematic book-length framework.

Scientific scope

The record is Pearl’s sole-author 1988 book. It does not assign every Bayesian-network precursor or later causal-inference result to this volume, and the book’s algorithms retain their stated graph and probability assumptions.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is Pearl’s sole-author 1988 book. It does not assign every Bayesian-network precursor or later causal-inference result to this volume, and the book’s algorithms retain their stated graph and probability assumptions.

Contributors

• Judea Pearl · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• UCLA faculty bibliography for Pearl book
• Publisher page for Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems

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