Editing Bayesian network (section)

==History==
The term Bayesian network was coined by [[Judea Pearl]] in 1985 to emphasize:<ref>{{cite conference |last=Pearl |first=J. | name-list-style = vanc  |author-link=Judea Pearl |year=1985 |title=Bayesian Networks: A Model of Self-Activated Memory for Evidential Reasoning |conference=Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, University of California, Irvine, CA
|pages=329&ndash;334 |url=http://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/tech-report/198_-reports/850017.pdf|access-date=2009-05-01 |format=UCLA Technical Report CSD-850017}}</ref>

*the often subjective nature of the input information
*the reliance on Bayes' conditioning as the basis for updating information
*the distinction between causal and evidential modes of reasoning<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Bayes | first1 = T. | name-list-style = vanc | author-link = Thomas Bayes | year = 1763 | title = An Essay Towards Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances | journal = [[Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]] | volume = 53 | pages = 370–418 | doi = 10.1098/rstl.1763.0053 | last2 = Price | title-link = An Essay Towards Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances | doi-access = free }}</ref>

In the late 1980s Pearl's ''Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems''<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Pearl J |title=Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems |publisher=[[Morgan Kaufmann]] |location=San Francisco CA |isbn=978-1-55860-479-7 |page=1988 |url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=AvNID7LyMusC}}|date=1988-09-15 }}</ref> and [[Richard E. Neapolitan|Neapolitan]]'s ''Probabilistic Reasoning in Expert Systems''<ref>{{cite book |first=Richard E. |last=Neapolitan | name-list-style = vanc  |title=Probabilistic reasoning in expert systems: theory and algorithms |url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=7X5KLwEACAAJ}} |year=1989 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-0-471-61840-9}}</ref> summarized their properties and established them as a field of study.