• In mathematics and computer science, the method of conditional probabilities is a systematic method for converting non-constructive probabilistic existence...
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    the two probabilities can lead to various errors of reasoning, which is commonly seen through base rate fallacies. While conditional probabilities can provide...
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  • probability (so that the step can remain randomized) or one derandomizes the rounding step, typically using the method of conditional probabilities....
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  • Incompressibility method Method of conditional probabilities Probabilistic proofs of non-probabilistic theorems Random graph Probabilistic Methods in Combinatorics...
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  • for inverting conditional probabilities, allowing one to find the probability of a cause given its effect. For example, if the risk of developing health...
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  • In probability theory, the conditional expectation, conditional expected value, or conditional mean of a random variable is its expected value evaluated...
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  • true with probability yx where yx is the value given in O. This algorithm can also be derandomized using the method of conditional probabilities. The 1/2-approximation...
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    theoretical probability (in contrast to empirical probability, dealing with probabilities in the context of real experiments). The probability is a number...
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    probability theory, conditional independence describes situations wherein an observation is irrelevant or redundant when evaluating the certainty of a...
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  • classifier for which the predicted probabilities or scores can not be used as probabilities. In this case one can use a method to turn these scores into properly...
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    The basic idea is to express a small failure probability as a product of larger conditional probabilities by introducing intermediate failure events. This...
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  • employed to derandomize particular randomized algorithms: the method of conditional probabilities, and its generalization, pessimistic estimators discrepancy...
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  • programming relaxation may be eliminated using the method of conditional probabilities, leading to a deterministic greedy algorithm for set cover, known...
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    a conditional probability case for the continuous uniform distribution: given that ⁠ X > 8 {\displaystyle X>8} ⁠ is true, what is the probability that...
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    half of the partition to assign it. In expectation, half of the edges are cut edges. This algorithm can be derandomized with the method of conditional probabilities;...
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  • The posterior probability is a type of conditional probability that results from updating the prior probability with information summarized by the likelihood...
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    In probability theory and statistics, a probability distribution is a function that gives the probabilities of occurrence of possible events for an experiment...
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    accordance with this, most sources for the topic of probability calculate the conditional probabilities that the car is behind door 1 and door 2 to be ⁠1/3⁠...
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    squares method a century later, a generation before Poisson. Laplace considered the probabilities of testimonies, tables of mortality, judgments of tribunals...
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  • “Large sample properties of generalized method of moments estimators”, Econometrica 50, 1029–1054. Lindsay, B.G. (1982). “Conditional score functions: some...
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  • posterior probability distribution, which is the conditional distribution of the uncertain quantity given new data. Historically, the choice of priors was...
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  • importance of conditional probability by writing "I wish to call attention to ... and especially the theory of conditional probabilities and conditional expectations...
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    that the probability assigned to the union of two disjoint (mutually exclusive) events by the measure should be the sum of the probabilities of the events;...
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  • parameters of a hidden Markov model are of two types, transition probabilities and emission probabilities (also known as output probabilities). The transition...
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    system are called transitions. The probabilities associated with various state changes are called transition probabilities. The process is characterized by...
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  • the joint probability function Pr ( G , S , R ) {\displaystyle \Pr(G,S,R)} and the conditional probabilities from the conditional probability tables (CPTs)...
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    of probability distributions can always be interpreted as the distributions of the random states of a Markov process whose transition probabilities depend...
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  • the cell probabilities, and conversely, the cell probabilities can be recovered given knowledge of the odds ratio and the marginal probabilities P(X = 1) = p11 + p10...
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  • experiments. It is a frequentist method in the sense that the properties of the limit are defined by means of error probabilities, however it differs from standard...
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  • with experimented probabilities and that probabilities cannot be applied to single cases. On the other hand, in updating probability distributions using...
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