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Mutually Exclusive Events


n events are said to be mutually exclusive if the occurrence of any one of them precludes any of the others. Therefore, for events X_1, ..., X_n, the conditional probability is P(X_i|X_j)=0 for all j!=i.


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Weisstein, Eric W. "Mutually Exclusive Events." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/MutuallyExclusiveEvents.html

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