Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems: Networks of Plausible Inference. By Judea Pearl. It is a great work on Bayesian Networks. For someone in graduate school, you should avoid books on either specific languages or implementations. That is great for a regular software developer but if he is going to graduate school he is probably more interested in research than implementation.
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Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems: Networks of Plausible Inference. By Judea Pearl. It is a great work on Bayesian Networks. For someone in graduate school, you should avoid books on either specific languages or implementations. That is great for a regular software developer but if he is going to graduate school he is probably more interested in research than implementation.