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Law of Total Probability  


Course Topic(s): Probability | Basic Probability, conditional probability

This is a brief article on the law of total probability. The law is expressed in terms of a partition and in terms of a discrete random variable. In the latter case, the law can be interpreted in terms of expected value.

Resource URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_total_probability


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Subject classification(s): Statistics and Probability | Probability | Elementary Probability

Creator(s): Wikipedia

Contributor(s): Wikipedia authors

This resource was cataloged by Kyle Siegrist

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Resource copyright: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike

This review was published on September 16, 2012

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