AIMA Artificial Intelligence a modern approch

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Exercise 20.9 [ML-parents-exercise]

Consider an arbitrary Bayesian network, a complete data set for that network, and the likelihood for the data set according to the network. Give a simple proof that the likelihood of the data cannot decrease if we add a new link to the network and recompute the maximum-likelihood parameter values.

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