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Conditional Probability

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Conditional probability is the probability of an event, assuming that some other event has already occurred.

Conditional probability is a high school-level concept that would be first encountered in a probability and statistics course. It is an Advanced Placement Statistics topic and is listed in the California State Standards for Probability and Statistics.

Prerequisites

Probability: Probability is the branch of mathematics that studies the possible outcomes of given events together with the outcomes' relative likelihoods and distributions.

Classroom Articles on Probability and Statistics (Up to High School Level)

  • Arithmetic Mean
  • Outlier
  • Box-and-Whisker Plot
  • Problem
  • Histogram
  • Sample
  • Mean
  • Scatter Diagram
  • Median
  • Standard Deviation
  • Mode