| Propagation Under Conditional Independence Assumptions (2007) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Abstract | In this paper, we prove that under the assumption of conditional independence, the EMYCIN formula for sequential propagation can be derived strictly from the de-nition of the certainty factor according to probability theory. We have already known that Adams [1] and Schocken [15] have proved that the EMYCIN formula for parallel propagation is partially consistent with probability theory. Our result supplements their contribution, and, together with theirs, explains why the EMYCIN model has been working reasonably well. | |||||||||||||||||
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