September 2017
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The conditional probability formula is:

where E and F are any events (that is, sets of outcomes) with positive probabilities. If we swap the names of the two events, we get the equivalent formula:

But F ∩ E = E ∩ F, so P(F ∩ E) = P(E ∩ F) = P(F│E) P(E). Thus:

This formula is called Bayes' theorem. The main idea is that it reverses the conditional relationship, allowing one to compute P(E│F) from P(F│E).
To illustrate Bayes' theorem, suppose ...
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