About the Author

Rich Neapolitan is Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Northeastern Illinois University. His research interests include probability and statistics (in particular, Bayesian networks and probabilistic modeling), expert systems, cognitive science (in particular, human learning and processing of causal knowledge), and applications of Bayesian networks and probabilistic modeling to fields such as medicine, biology, and finance.

Rich is a prolific author and has been publishing in the most prestigious journals in the broad area of reasoning under uncertainty since 1987. He has previously written four books including the seminal 1990 Bayesian network text Probabilistic Reasoning in Expert Systems. More recently, he wrote Learning ...

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