Statistics › Section C · Probability › Topic C.2
Independent and mutually exclusive events
Does knowing one event happened change the chance of another? Conditional probability measures the change, independence is its absence, and mutual exclusivity is its extreme - three ideas this topic keeps firmly apart.
In this topic
- When knowing changes the odds
- Conditional probability
- The multiplication rule
- Independence
- With and without replacement
- Mutually exclusive events
- Exclusive means maximally dependent
- Worked example: testing independence with data
- Worked example: two greens from the jar
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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