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  1. probability - Prior vs. Marginal Probabilities - Cross Validated

    Oct 3, 2016 · What is the difference between prior and marginal probabilities in layman terms? Do these concepts refer to the same thing, but in the different contexts?

  2. probability - Independence vs Marginal independence

    Oct 20, 2017 · As Jimmy R points out, marginal independence is the same as traditional independence, and conditional independence is just the independence of two random …

  3. Why is the marginal distribution/marginal probability described as ...

    May 15, 2019 · 17 Marginal generally refers to something that's a small effect, something that's on the outside of a bigger system. It tends to diminish the importance of whatever is described as …

  4. Can you explain what is Marginal probability? - Cross Validated

    Feb 5, 2015 · I am trying to understand what does Marginal probability mean in Probability theory. I looked it up in wikipedia but its language and notations are way beyond comprehension for …

  5. Why do we refer to the denominator of Bayes' theorem as …

    Jun 26, 2015 · Why do we refer to the denominator of Bayes' theorem as "marginal probability"? Ask Question Asked 10 years, 4 months ago Modified 2 years, 7 months ago

  6. probability - What's the difference between prior and marginal ...

    Dec 2, 2016 · As Tim just said, probability theory does not distinguish between prior and marginal. Statistics does because parameter comes before or prior to the data.

  7. Understanding sum rule for marginal probability

    Apr 9, 2020 · Explore related questions probability probability-distributions marginal-distribution marginal-probability See similar questions with these tags.

  8. probability - The Marginal Distribution of a Multinomial

    Apr 16, 2016 · I am not able to show why the marginal probability of this distribution, with respect to either $x_1$ or $x_2$ follows $b (n, p_1)$ or $b (n, p_2)$, respectively.

  9. statistics - Is P (Y = y) in the marginal probability formula always 1 ...

    Jul 2, 2019 · Given my lack of knowledge in the probability domain, is P (Y = y) always equal to 1, or are there any special cases where P (Y = y) would be less than 1? (In which case, …

  10. Understanding the marginal probability from joint pdf

    Aug 6, 2022 · A mental picture of what is going on with the marginal pdf is imagining telescoping the joint pdf from two to a single dimension, i.e. integrating one of the variables out for each …