Intelligent Systems Lecture Notes

21 October 2011 • Belief Networks


A random variable need not be boolean. If a random variable has a domain of size n > 2, replace the random variable with ⌈ log2 n⌉ new boolean random variables. The ith new random variable is true only if the original random value had the ith value (in some ordering) from the original domain. Any world in which more than one of the new random variables are true should receive a 0 probability assignment.
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