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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 207 2 b i Solution by
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Reading the arrows in the original diagram gives parents , and . The Bayesian network factorization isFor binary variables, each conditional probability table has one free probability per parent configuration, since its two entries sum to one. There are one each for and , four for , and two for , givingThis is the dimension of the unrestricted binary Bayesian network family; extra statistical parameter equalities or deterministic relationships would describe a smaller model and are not imposed by the diagram.
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