WIT Press


Automated Generation Of Atoms From Conditional Events

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

15

Pages

8

Published

1997

Size

591 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/IMS970171

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

G. Di Biase & R. Manca

Abstract

Automated Generation of Atoms from Conditional Events G. Di Biase, R. Manca Dept. of Science, G. D'Annunzio University, male Pindaro 42, 65727 Pfjcara, /Wy. E-mail: dibiase@sci.unich.it, rmanca@sci.unich.it 1 Introduction All approaches to probability theory start from the consideration of the events. A standard event E is any unambiguous proposition that can only assume the two values true or false. The lack of information on the actual value of E paves the way to the concept of probability. In many real situations it is not enough to direct our attention towards standard events, but we need to take into account also other events which add to our information. By means of the conditional probability of a given event the classical theory enables us to determine the probability of an event by first conditioning upon whether or not some second event has occurred. Namely there are many instances where it is difficult to compute the probability of an event directly, but it is straightfor

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