User:IssaRice/Belief propagation two coins and a bell example

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This is an example that illustrates belief propagation in a simple polytree. The situation is given by Pearl (though he doesn't use it as an example of belief propagation). There are two coins, left and right, and a bell. The bell rings when the two coins land on the same side.

We can draw a Bayesian network like this: LBR, where L is a random variable representing the left coin flip, B the bell, and R the right coin flip.