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Introduction the central nervous system cns constantly sends motor commands to our muscles. Bayesian decision analysis supports principled decision making in complex domains. Bayesian decision theory i pxjw j is the classconditional probability density function. Rcdt is credible enough, and the determined t init is not past as shown in fig.
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