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1
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What is the complement of getting “at least one” particular event?

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you get no occurrences of the event

2
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List the four steps in finding the probability of getting at least one of some event:

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3
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A _______ ________ of an event is a probability obtained with the additional information that some other event has occured:

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Conditional probability

4
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How would you notate the conditional probability of event B occurring, given that event A has already occurred?

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6
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Confusion of the Inverse

7
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What is the formula for Bayes’ Theorem?

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8
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What describes an initial probability value originally obtained before any additional information is obtained?

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prior probability

9
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what is a probability value that has been revised by using additional information that is later obtained?

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posterior probability