PROBABILITY REVIEW PART 4 PROBABILITY FOR TEXT ANALYTICS Thomas Tiahrt, MA, PhD CSC492 – Advanced Text Analytics

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Kinds of Probability 4  Five categories of probabilities  Marginal probabilities  Probability of a complement  Joint (Intersection) probabilities  Union probabilities  Conditional probabilities

Eight-Sided Die 5  Eight faces on each die  Dots on a die are called ‘pips’

Imaginary Eight-Sided Die 6

Marginal Probabilities 7 OutcomeProbability {1}1/8 {2}1/8 {3}1/8 {4}1/8 {5}1/8 {6}1/8 {7}1/8 {8}1/8

Examples of Marginal Probabilities 8

Complementary Probabilities 9 Outcome {1} {2} {3} {4} {5} {6} {7} {8}

Complementary Examples 10

References 11 Sources: Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, by Christopher Manning and Hinrich Schütze The MIT Press Discrete Mathematics with Applications, by Susanna S. Epp Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning

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