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Conditional probabilities are based on some event occurring given that something else has already occurred?

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The answer is true. A conditional probability is a measure of the probability of an event given that (by assumption, presumption, assertion or evidence) another event has occurred. If the event of interest is A and the event B is known or assumed to have occurred, "the conditional probability of A given B", or "the probability of A in the condition B", is usually written as P (A|B). The conditional probability of A given B is well-defined as the quotient of the probability of the joint of events A and B, and the probability of B.

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