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Principles of Data Science
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Principles of Data Science

by Sinan Ozdemir
December 2016
Beginner
388 pages
8h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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The rules of probability

In probability, we have some rules that become very useful when visualization gets too cumbersome. These rules help us calculate compound probabilities with ease.

The addition rule

The addition rule is used to calculate the probability of either or events. To calculate P(A The addition rule B) = P(A or B), we use the following formula:

P(A The addition rule B) = P(A) + P(B) − P(A ∩ B)

The first part of the formula (P(A) + P(B)) makes complete sense. To get the union of the two events, we have to add together the area of the circles in the universe. But why the ...

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ISBN: 9781785887918