Introduction In the previous lessons and labs, you learned about some fundamentals of probability theory, along with basic combinatorics such as permutations and combinations. You'll now extend your ...

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In this lesson, we'll look at the law of total probability. In probability theory, the law (or formula) of total probability is a fundamental rule relating marginal probabilities to conditional ...

We elaborate on an alternative representation of conditional probability to the usual tree diagram. We term the representation “turtleback diagram” for its resemblance to the pattern on turtle shells.