Enum EvidenceType

The type of evidence for a variable. When a variable is set to a specific value, this is called Hard evidence.

Namespace: BayesServer.Inference

Assembly: BayesServer.Inference.dll

Syntax

public enum EvidenceType

Remarks

For a discrete variable with a number of possible states, soft evidence implies that we have some information about the configuration of the states, but we are uncertain of the exact state. For example if a node has 3 states and we are sure that the last state is not possible, we can have evidence of the form {1, 1, 0}. We can also assign a distribution such as {0.3,0.4, 0.3}.

See for information on how to set this type of evidence.

Fields

Name	Description
Hard	The value for the variable is known, such as the specific state of a discrete node.
None	No evidence has been set. I.e. the variable's value is unknown/missing/null.
Soft	A distribution is used to indicate evidence that is uncertain.
Temporal	The variable has evidence at one or more times.