The Law of Total Probability

The law of total probability essentially states that the probabilities of all possible disjoint events must sum to one. Said another way, "something must happen".

This video was produced at the University of Washington, and we acknowledge funding support from the Boeing Company

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00:00 Intro
00:52 The Multiplication Law
02:17 Introducing The Law of Total Probability
05:45 Example: Cards
07:45 Outro

[benpeter]

This guy is cool. He explains things very nicely. Nice posture and conversational skills.

[muntazirabbas]

I am following this Bootcamp series on probability and statistics I want to say thank you for such lectures. I have a question regarding conditional probability especially from the diagram drawn, we can see the overlap area between B and A. So my question is this is always true that when event B happend then probability of event A will always fall in overlaped region? Because there is some portion of A which is not overlapping. What does that small portion represents? I stuck on this point and couldn't proceed further 😊

[asifhasan-jzhk]

Please professor. Make a video on the philosophy of probability!

[rpaiz]

Thanks for the series! Will you be covering prediction using the regression line computation?

[drskelebone]

And that's why Wolverine calls everyone B∪Bᶜ.

[JansthcirlU]

Perhaps Boeing should stop building planes and support more UW videos instead. Fewer fatalities that way.