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Probabilistic Reasoning
•From the joint probability distribution, we can answer any probability query.
•From the conditional (in)dependence assumptions and CPTs of the belief network, we can compute the joint probability distribution.
•Therefore, a belief network has the probabilistic information to answer any probability query.
•How do we compute the joint probability distribution from the belief network?