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Course Notes - Department of Mathematics and Statistics

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Tree diagram rules• Add Vertically.• Multiply across.• They give a good way to visualise sample space restrictions resultingfrom conditioning <strong>and</strong> help to calculate joint <strong>and</strong> conditionalprobabilitiesBasic Tree DiagramsBA¯BBĀ¯B• In this simple example each <strong>of</strong> the levels <strong>of</strong> the tree diagram havetwo possibilities.• Note A + Ā = 1 <strong>and</strong> B + ¯B = 1. Since if A does not occur Āmust, similarly if B does not occur ¯B must.• Also note if the events A <strong>and</strong> B are not independant than theprobability B occurs after A is not necessarily the same as theprobability B occurs after Ā39

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