We're a little crazy, about science!

Archive for September 30, 2019

Day 42: Conditional Probability

Conditional probability pdf plot

How does this not exist on the internet?! This is directly from my book, so it looks a little… well loved.

Up to now we’ve been dealing with single variable pdf and the corresponding CDF. We said that these probabilities relied on the fact that our variable of interest was independent. However, what if we knew some property that impacted our probability? Today we are talking conditional probability and that is the question we will be answering. It’s going to be a long, long post so plan accordingly.*

(more…)