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Page 53
In Probability of Symbols section |
The Probability of Symbols section is impossible to follow. There's not enough information. Each time, I review it appears wrong.
Here are the topics that are unclear:
total = 6.0
Total for what? There are 5 numbers [1,2,3,4,5] not 6.
p_a_cap_b = (a & b).length / total
What does p_a_cap_b mean? Where does the "cap" come in?
p_a_cap_b = (a & b).length / total
Does it then equal to 1/6 = .16666?
p_b = b.length / total = 3/6 = .5?
But this can't be right since below it says that P(B)=20%.
If p_b = .2 = 3/total then total = 3/.2 = 15
Where does 15 come from?
Then b.length cannot equal to 3. What does it equal then?
p_a_cab_b = p_a_given_b * p_b = 0.33*.0.2 = 0.06
But 0.06 does not equal to 1/6 or 1/5. Where does 0.06 come from?
If you could provide additional details, that would be awesome. I really want to understand this example.
Thanks very much,
-Larry
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Larry Freeman |
Dec 18, 2014 |
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9th line of text from the top |
For the code inside the box "Probability Symbols", there is a line "total = 6.0". I believe this should be 5, not 6. If 'total' means the number of possible outcomes, assuming that events A and B are jointly exhaustive, then there are a total of 5 possible outcomes, as shown several lines earlier with the line starting "a | b".
This doesn't affect the final value of p_a_given_b, because (1/total) is a factor of both p_a_cap_b and p_b, so when the former is divided by the latter, the factors cancel out.
In essence, B has three outcomes, one of them is shared with A, so the probability of A given B is 1/3. This all rests on the assumption that the five outcomes are equally probable (each has a probability of .2).
I am assuming that the content of Fig. 4-1 is completely independent of the content of the box "Probability Symbols".
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Bruce Tesar |
May 10, 2018 |