Examples from The Book of Why Illustrated with BayesiaLab

Overview

• We are starting this new section to share and explain Bayesian networks inspired by Judea Pearl’s The Book of Why.
• For each example, we provide an excerpt from Pearl’s book to introduce the problem domain and then offer a solution in the form of a Bayesian network.
• We share all networks in BayesiaLab’s XBL format and publish them as interactive WebSimulators so you can experiment with the models without installing BayesiaLab.

Content

• Firing Squad
• Smallpox Vaccine
• Teahouse
• Breast Cancer
• Where Is My Bag?
• The Back-Door Criterion
• Smoking and Asthma
• The Birth-Weight Paradox
• The Monty Hall Problem