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In Chapter 4 we discussed the concept of conditional probability. We recall that a conditional probability P[A|B] is the probability of an event A, given that we know that some other event B has occurred. Except for the case when the two events are independent of each other,the knowledge that B has occurred will change the probability P[A].
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Kay, S.M. (2012). Conditional Probability Mass Functions. In: Intuitive Probability and Random Processes Using MATLAB®. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-24158-2_8
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