Assignment1

=CSE655: Probabilistic Reasoning=

Reading Assignment
Each student is required to prepare a presentation from the following assigned work and present it in the class as per the given schedule.


 * ** Chapter ** || ** Book ** || ** Student ** || ** Presentation Date ** || ** Download Presentations ** ||
 * Chapter 2 || Bayesian Network and Decision Graphs by Jensen and Nielsen || Quratulain Rajput || September 16, 2009 || [[file:Causal and Bayesian Network.pptx]] ||
 * Chapter 1 || Bayesian Networks and Influence Diagrams: A Guide to Construction and Analysis by Kjaerulff and Madsen || Raza Abedi || September 16, 2009 || [[file:Chapter1 Bayesian Network and Decision Graph.pptx]] ||
 * Chapter 4 || Modeling and Reasoning with Bayesian Networks by Adnan Darwiche || Asma Larik || September 19, 2009 || [[file:Bayesian Networks.pptx]] ||
 * Chapter 5 || Probabilistic Methods for Bioinformatics : With an Introduction to Bayesian Networks by Richard Neapolitan || Saleha Raza || September 19, 2009 || [[file:Chapter 5 - Prob Methods for BioInformatics.ppt]] ||

Practice Assignment (Due on September 12, 2009)
Generate the complete joint probability distribution of the following two Bayesian Networks using the chain rule of Bayesian Networks:
 * 1) [[file:Coma.xdsl]]
 * 2) [[file:Burglary.xdsl]]

I suggest using MS Excel for the computations. After generating the joint distributions, compare the marginal distributions obtained through Excel computations and the ones obtained through GeNIe.

Also compute P(Serium | Calcium) in Model # 1 using Excel and compare your answer with GeNIe. Repeat this excercise (comparison) for P(Earthquake | JohnCalls) and P(MarryCalls | Earthquake) in Model # 2.