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Conditional Recurrence
Course Topic(s): Probability | Basic Probability, conditional probability
This is a short article on conditional independence although the term conditional recurrence is used as the title. Basically, the article explores the difference between tossing a coin with a deterministic probability of heads versus tossing a coin with a random probability of heads. More specifically, the article considers the problem of choosing a coin at random from a box with two coins with different probabilities of heads, and then tossing the chosen coin. The tosses are conditionally independent given the type of coin, but dependent without this information.
Resource URL: http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Probability/ConditionalRecurrence.shtml
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Statistics and Probability
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Probability
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Elementary Probability
Creator(s): Alexander Bogomolny
Contributor(s): Alexander Bogomolny
This resource was cataloged by Kyle Siegrist
Publisher:Cut-the-knot
Resource copyright: Copyright Alexander Bogomolny. The HTML page can be accessed and linked to, but not copied or used in other works.
This review was published on September 14, 2012
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