Conditional Independence — The Backbone of Bayesian Networks

Understanding Conditional Independence Intuition, Derivation, and Examples

Ms Aerin
Towards Data Science
6 min readOct 5, 2019

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Sometimes, explanations on Wikipedia can be challenging to comprehend. In this blog post, we’ll explore the concept of conditional independence, which is a crucial component of Bayesian networks.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_independence

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