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army1987 comments on Help me teach Bayes' - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: tomme 11 April 2012 05:56PM

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Comment author: army1987 11 April 2012 07:34:05PM 0 points [-]

I think the second line after the => was supposed to be P(B and A) = P(B) * P(A|B).

Comment author: Incorrect 11 April 2012 07:52:55PM 1 point [-]

No, it's a substitution on the left hand side. I substituted P(A and B) for P(B and A)