Over the last decade, a Bayesian network has become a popular representation for encoding uncertain expert knowledge in expert systems. A Bayesian network is a graphical model for probabilistic relationships among a set of variables. It is a graphical model that encodes probabilistic relationships among variables of interest. When used in conjunction with statistical techniques, the graphical model has several advantages for data modeling. So what do Bayesian networks and Bayesian methods have to offer? There are at least four benefits described in the following
