Which of the following is the appropriate notation when calculating conditional probabilities?

Question

asked Oct 9, 2019 40.8k views

2 Answers

Vasundhara · Answer 1 · 2019-10-13T22:47:09+0000

The notation which is the most appropriate notation when calculating conditional probabilities is:

B.
$P(C|D)=(P(C\bigcap D))/(P(D))$

In statistics, the conditional probability is defined as the probability of an event given that the other event has already occurred.

i.e. if C and D are two events such that the event D has already occurred then the conditional probability of C given D is given by:

$P(C|D)=(P(C\bigcap D))/(P(D))$

Hence, option: B is the correct answer.