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Conditional probability occurs when it is given that something has happened. (Hint: look for the word “given” in the question. The probability that a tennis player wins the first set of a match is ...

Conditional probability occurs when it is given that something has happened. (Hint: look for the word “given” in the question. The probability that a tennis player wins the first set of a match is ...

Abstract: This article is meant to serve as an introduction to the following series of papers on various aspects of conditional event algebra and probability logic. It addresses the history of the ...

This course provides an introduction to probability models including sample spaces, mutually exclusive and independent events, conditional probability and Bayes' Theorem. The named distributions ...

This course focuses on probability theory, with the view of probability distributors as models for phenomena with statistical regularity. 1. Discrete distributions (binomial, hypergeometric, and ...

We elaborate on an alternative representation of conditional probability to the usual tree diagram. We term the representation “turtleback diagram” for its resemblance to the pattern on turtle shells.