A Literature Review of Bayes’ Theorem and Bayesian Belief Networks (BBN)

This chapter provides an introduction to the Bayes’ theorem evolution to include: (a) the early 1900s, (b) 1920–1930s, (c) 1940–1950s, and (d) 1960s–Mid 1980s, a review of the BBN evolution to include: (a) financial economics, accounting, and operational risks, (b) safety, accident analysis, and prevention, (c) engineering and safety risk analysis, (d) ecology, (e) human behavior, (f) behavioral sciences and marketing, (g) decision support systems with expert systems and applications, information sciences, intelligent data analysis, neuroimaging, environmental modeling and software, and industrial ergonomics, (h) cognitive science, (i) medical, health, dental, and nursing, (j) environmental studies, and (k) miscellaneous—politics, geriatrics, space policy, and language and speech, and a review of current government and commercial users of BBN.

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