@techreport{heckerman1988an,
author = {Heckerman, David},
title = {An Empirical Comparison of Three Inference Methods},
year = {1988},
month = {August},
abstract = {In this paper, an empirical evaluation of three inference methods for uncertain reasoning is presented in the context of Pathfinder, a large expert system for the diagnosis of lymph-node pathology. The inference procedures evaluated are (1) Bayes' theorem, assuming evidence is conditionally independent given each hypothesis; (2) odds-likelihood updating, assuming evidence is conditionally independent given each hypothesis and given the negation of each hypothesis; and (3) a inference method related to the Dempster-Shafer theory of belief. Both expert-rating and decision-theoretic metrics are used to compare the diagnostic accuracy of the inference methods.},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/empirical-comparison-three-inference-methods/},
pages = {158-169},
edition = {Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI1988)},
number = {UAI-P-1988-PG-158-169},
note = {SIGCOMM 2014},
}