Probabilistic Reasoning in the Domain of Genetic Counseling
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MIT-LCS-TR-460.pdf
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Author(s)
Harris, Nomi L.
Advisor(s)
Szolovits, Peter
Date Issued
October 1989
Series/Report no.
MIT-LCS-TR-460
Abstract
This paper describes a program, GENINFER, which uses belief networks to calculate risks of inheriting genetic disorders. GENINFER is based on Judea Pearl's [17] algorithm for fusion and propagation in probabilistic belief networks. These networks allow the effects of various pieces of information to be propagated and fused in such a way that, when equilibrium is reached, each proposition can be assigned a degree of believe consistent with the axioms of probability theory.
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