Strong completeness and faithfulness in Bayesian networks
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A completeness result for d-separation ap plied to discrete Bayesian networks is pre sented and it is shown that in a strong measure-theoretic sense almost all discrete distributions for a given network structure are faithful; i.e. the independence facts true of the distribution are all and only those en tailed by the network structure.
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