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1. Prove the following identity:
Pr(α1,…,αn | β) = Pr(α1 | α2,…,αn,β)Pr(α2 | α3,…,αn,β)…Pr(αn | β).
2. A well is being drilled on a farm. Based on what has happened to similar farms, we judge theprobability of oil being present to be 0.5, the probability of natural gas being present to be 0.2, and the probability of neither being present to be 0.3. If oil is present, a geological test will give a positive result with probability 0.9; if natural gas is present, it will give a positive result with probability 0.3; and if neither are present, the test will be positive with probability 0.1. Suppose the test comes back positive. What’s the probability that oil is present?
3. We have a bag of three biased coins a, b, and c with probabilities of coming up heads of 20%, 40%, and 80%, respectively. One coin is drawn randomly from the bag (with equal likelihood of drawing each of the three coins), and then the coin is flipped three times to generate the outcomes X1, X2, and X3. A bell will ring “on” if all coins flips come out the same. Draw the Bayesian network corresponding to this setup and define the necessary CPTs (Conditional Probability Tables).
4. Consider the DAG in Figure 1:
(a) List the Markovian assumptions asserted by the DAG.
(b) True or false? Why?
• d separated(A,F,E)
• d separated(G,B,E)
• d separated(AB,CDE,GH)
(c) Express Pr(a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h) in factored form using the chain rule for Bayesian networks.
(d) Compute Pr(A = 1,B = 1) and Pr(E = 0 | A = 0). Justify your answers.

Pr(A = 0) Pr(A = 1)
.8 .2

Pr(B = 0) Pr(B = 1)
.3 .7

Pr(E = 0 | B) Pr(E = 1 | B)
B = 0 .1 .9
B = 1 .9 .1
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Figure 1: The DAG of a Bayesian network.
Pr(D = 0 | A,B) Pr(D = 1 | A,B)
A = 0,B = 0 .2 .8
A = 0,B = 1 .9 .1
A = 1,B = 0 .4 .6
A = 1,B = 1 .5 .5
5. Consider the joint probability distribution in Table 1 and the propositional sentenceα : A ⇒ B.
(a) List the models of α.
(b) Compute the probability Pr(α).
(c) Compute the conditional probability distribution Pr(A,B | α) as in Table 1.
(d) Compute the probability Pr(A ⇒ ¬B | α).
A B Pr(A,B)
w0 T T 0.3
w1 T F 0.2
w2 F T 0.1
w3 F F 0.4
Table 1: A joint probability distribution.
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