Re: Programming is the Engineering Discipline of the Science that is Mathematics
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 04:14:27 GMT
Message-ID: <DMMig.20488$A26.470316_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 04:14:27 GMT
Message-ID: <DMMig.20488$A26.470316_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
vc wrote:
> Keith H Duggar wrote:
> [Irrelevant stuff skipped]
>
> Assuming Bayesian treatment (which was not specified originally, mind
> you), the derivation is still meaningless. Let's try some argument
> from authority:
[snip]
Your whole dismissal, as I recall, depends on your observation:
> P(B|A) def P(A and B)/P(A) > > the requirement for such definition being that P(A) <>0, naturally.
Keith used the equivalent definition:
P(A and B) = P(B|A)P(A), which places no requirements on P(A) because one does not divide by P(A).