MATH 1711: WEEK 5
Topics for this week are:
- Conditional Probability
- Independence
- Tree Diagrams and Bayes' Theorem
Objectives for this week:
- Understand the differences between independent and mutually exclusive
events
- Use conditional probability and independence to help find
probabilities
- Compute sample spaces and probabilities using a tree diagram
- Find conditional probabilities using tree diagrams and Bayes'
theorem
Text coverage:
Sections 6.5 - 6.7 of Goldstein, Schneider and Siegel.
Online resources:
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School of Mathematics,
Georgia Institute of Technology.