Deleting Nodes and Links

Nodes:  To delete a node or nodes, first select them, and then press the delete key, click the image\DelTOOL.gif toolbar button, or choose Edit Delete.  Alternately, you can just right-click a node and choose Delete.  This will remove the nodes, and all links from other nodes going to them.  Links going from them to their child nodes will be disconnected just before the deletion.  These disconnected links will be selected after the nodes are removed, so you can easily delete them as well by just pressing the delete key a second time.

If you wish to remove the nodes, but maintain the global relationship of the remaining nodes (i.e. the full joint probability distribution), you should absorb the nodes.

Links:  To delete a link, click on it to select it, and then press the delete key or choose Edit Delete.  To delete a series of links, select them all and then press the delete key.  When a link is deleted, the conditional probabilities of the child node are collapsed to eliminate their dependence on that parent, as if the parent took on its first state.  When a link is deleted the parent node is not affected in any way.