What is the difference between P(A|B) and P(B|A)?
These conditional probabilities ask different questions and are generally unequal — Bayes' theorem relates them.
These conditional probabilities ask different questions and are generally unequal — Bayes' theorem relates them. A reliable way to keep them apart is to focus on what each one is defined by, not just the similar-sounding words.
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P(A|B) vs P(B|A)
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