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By: Neil E. Cotter PROBABILITY CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY Discrete random variables DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS DEF: P(A | B) the ( CONDITIONAL ) PROBABILITY of A given B occurs NOT'N: | "given" EX: The PROBABILITY that event A occurs may change if we know event B has occurred. For example, if A it will snow today, and if B it is 90 outside, then knowing that B has occurred will make the PROBABILITY of A almost zero. The PROBABILITY of snow is higher if we do not know what the temperature is. Thus, P(A | B) < P(A).

By: PNeil E. Cotter ROBABILITY CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY Discrete random variables DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS DEF: P(A|B) ≡ the (conditional) Probability of A given B occurs NOT'N: | ≡ "given" EX: The probability that event A occurs may change if we know event B has occurred. For example, if A ≡ it will snow today, and if B ≡ it is 90° outside, then knowing that

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