ksvanhorn comments on Classical Configuration Spaces - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ksvanhorn 06 February 2011 07:33:15AM 2 points [-]

Conditional independence does not require a rectangular "cloud of uncertainty". If you have independent normal distributions for A and B, the joint distribution -- your "cloud of uncertainty" -- is an axis-parallel ellipse.