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uncertainty

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• Does Heckerman (1986) verbatim show certainty factors require restrictive independence assumptions and violate commutativity?
  capture promoted 2026-08-11 · david-heckerman, certainty-factors, MYCIN, bayesian-networks, expert-systems
• Heckerman (1986) showed MYCIN's certainty factors admit a coherent probabilistic reading only under restrictive independence assumptions
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-10 · AI-history, certainty-factors, david-heckerman, MYCIN, bayesian-networks
• MYCIN's certainty factors were an ad hoc non-Bayesian uncertainty scheme (CF = MB − MD) built for rule-based diagnosis
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-10 · AI-history, expert-systems, MYCIN, certainty-factors, uncertainty