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About the Authors
Richard E. Neapolitan is a professor of computer science at Northeastern Illi-
nois University. His research interests include probability and statistics, expert
systems, cognitive science, and applications of probabilistic modeling to fields
such as medicine, biology, and finance. Dr. Neapolitan is a prolific author and
has published in the most prestigious journals in the broad area of reasoning
under uncertainty. He has previously written five books, including the seminal
1990 Bayesian network text Probabilistic Reasoning in Expert Systems; Le arn-
ing Bayesian Networks (2004); Foundations of Algorithms (1996, 1998, 2003,
2010), ...