conditional probability
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Summary
The conditional probability of an event A given another event B is the probability that A occurs if it's known that B occurs. Conditional probability is fundamental to probabilistic modeling, since it gives a way of accounting for observed evidence.
Context
This concept has the prerequisites:
Goals
- Know the definition of conditional probability
- Know how the joint probability of a configuration of random variables decomposes as a product of the conditional probabilities
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