probabilistic reasoning

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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Probabilistic reasoning is used when we have uncertain knowledge that can be captured, estimated or expressed as probabilities. Reasoning about this may involve simple calculations, or aspects of probability theory such as Bayes Theorem.

Used in Chap. 3: pages 29, 30, 31, 32, 36; Chap. 11: page 164

Also known as probabilistic