Definition:Independent Events/Definition 1

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Definition

Let $\EE$ be an experiment with probability space $\struct {\Omega, \Sigma, \Pr}$.

Let $A, B \in \Sigma$ be events of $\EE$ such that $\map \Pr A > 0$ and $\map \Pr B > 0$.


The events $A$ and $B$ are defined as independent (of each other) if and only if the occurrence of one of them does not affect the probability of the occurrence of the other one.


Formally, $A$ is independent of $B$ if and only if:

$\condprob A B = \map \Pr A$

where $\condprob A B$ denotes the conditional probability of $A$ given $B$.


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