Running Without An E-cases File

• Choose Preview in the Prepare menu. This will open a window that will report the total probability of all stories. You will get a number that is very close to 1, provided that so far you've followed properly the instructions of this quick tour. If you do not get 1, the most likely explanation is that you entered the node matrices incorrectly. You'll have to go back and fix things. Press OK to dismiss the Preview window.
• Choose Illustrate Stories in the Prepare menu.
• Choose Go Forward in the Go menu.
• Choose Open Node Probs. in the Windows menu. This opens a window that shows the probability distribution of each node of the net. These probabilities are calculated by Quantum Fog using your inputs into the Node Prior-Info. window.
• Choose Open Bi-node Probs. in the Windows menu. This opens a window that shows the joint probability distribution of each bi-node that you listed in the Bi-nodes Of Interest window.
• Choose Open Stories in the Windows menu. This opens a window that contains a First and Next button. Click successively on the Next button. All possible stories will be portrayed in the Main Window.
• Choose Go Back To Initial State in the Go menu.
• Open the Node Prior-Info. window and make nz+  its focus node. Click the star of state 1 so as to make this state inactive. Now only state 0 of nz+  is active. Close the Node Prior-Info. window.
• Choose Go Forward in the Go menu.
• Open the Node Probs. window. How does it differ from the Node Probs. window that was obtained on the first run?
• Open the Bi-node Probs. window. How does it differ from the Bi-node Probs. window that was obtained on the first run?
• Open the Stories window. How does it differ from the Stories window that was obtained on the first run?

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