Concept information
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cognitive sciences, neurosciences, and social explanation
social cognition
inferences
Bayesian inference
Preferred term
conditional probability
Definition
- Conditional probability is a mathematical description of the likelihood that a particular event will take place given the occurrence of a particular precursor event. Thus the probability of occurrence of event A is conditional on the probability of the prior occurrence of event B. Conditional probability is expressed as P (A\\B), which is read as “the probability of A given B.” In order to calculate the conditional probability of an event, there must be a priori knowledge of both the probability that the first of the events will occur and the probability that both events will occur together. [Source: Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics; Conditional Probability]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/conditional_probability
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