“…It mandates some statistical knowledge as well as some familiarity with stochastic process theory and Monte Carlo simulation techniques (Goss and Peccoud, 1998). A Bayesian Network (BN) provides a graphical representation of key factors, which are represented as nodes in the diagram and their causal relationships with each other and with the outcome of interest (Borsuk et al, 2006;McCann et al, 2006;Jensen and Nielsen, 2007;Uusitalo, 2007) are depicted as directed links or arrows connecting a 'parent node' to a 'child node', resulting in a directed acyclic graph (DAG) (Saddo et al, 2005;Jensen and Nielsen, 2007;Uusitalo, 2007;Park and Stenstrom, 2008). BNs are better able to portray the complexity of the decision process and the many inter-dependencies between the factors of the decision process (Janssens et al, 2006).…”