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- Let event X be x lies in [x, x+dx]
- Let event Y be y lies in [y, y+dy]
- Let
be probability of X given Y.
- By definition

- or
a conditional distribution (EDJRS p. 18).
- Similarly, let
be probability of Y given X.
- We find

Geoffrey Fox, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, gcf@npac.syr.edu