Kirkwood approximation
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Kirkwood approximation
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The Kirkwood superposition approximation was introduced in 1935 by John G. Kirkwood as a means of representing a discrete probability distribution. The Kirkwood approximation for a discrete probability density function P is given by where is the product of probabilities over all subsets of variables of size i in variable set V . This kind of formula has been considered by Watanabe (1960) and, according to Watanabe, also by Robert Fano. For the three-variable case, it reduces to simply The Kirkwo
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