conditional probability distribution

— 1999, Anders L. Madsen, Bruce D'Ambrosio, Lazy Propagation and Independence of Causal Influence, Anthony Hunter, Simon Parsons, Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning and Uncertainty, Springer, page 293, A Bayesian network consists of a directed, acyclic graph and a set of conditional probability distributions. For each variable in the graph there is a conditional probability distribution of the variable given its parents.