I'm I right to surmise that "graphical" refers to graphs rather than "graphics",...

jey · on Nov 20, 2011

Yes, "graphical models" are a formalism for representing and reasoning about probability distributions using graphs.

gwern · on Nov 20, 2011

Yes. Confusing, isn't it?

dudurocha · on Nov 21, 2011

For me, as non native English speaker is more confusing.

In Portuguese we say grafos(graphs) and gráficos, when we refer to pics and images. And when I read something in English, I wonder if its graphs referring to maths or to pics.