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Studies axioms, counting formulas, conditional probability, independence, random variables, continuous and discrete distribution, expectation, joint distributions, moment generating functions, law of ...

The idea of conditional probability can be used to provide a general representation of a joint distribution as a product, but a more complicated product than arises with an iid vector. As one would ...