Causal inference in legal decision making: explanatory coherence vs. bayesian networks

Applied Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 231-249

  Thagard, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DECISION MAKING; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CAUSAL INFERENCE; LEGAL DECISION MAKING; WITNESSES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 2442436779     PISSN: 08839514     EISSN: 10876545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08839510490279861     Document Type: Article

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