Today we'll discuss conditional probabilities and practice using Bayes's Rule. The graphical method helps us remeber the rule for computations. For homework, read chapter 10 of our textbook and complete the reading quiz. In our next class, we'll have a quiz on probabilities. For this quiz, you should be able to:
identify whether a given situation is modeled by a binomial random variable and if so determine n and p
use the sps.binom.rvs command to generate an array of binomial random variable outputs
use the sps.binom.pmf and sps.binom.cdf commands to compute probabilities involving a binomial random variable
state the definition of conditional probability
Computations with Bayes's Rule will not be on the quiz (they appear on your next homework assignment).