Kamandirian statistik: Béda antarrépisi

Similarly, when we assert that two [[random variable]]s are independent, we intuitively mean that knowing something about the value of one of them does not yield any information about the value of the other. For example, the number appearing on the upward face of a die the first time it is thrown and that appearing the second time are independent.

 

 

If two events ''A'' and ''B'' are [[independent]], then the [[conditional probability]] of ''A'' given ''B'' is the same as the "unconditional" (or "marginal") probability of ''A'', i.e.,