Conditional probability mass function
Let
and
be two discrete random variables. The conditional probability mass
function of
given
is a function
![[eq1]](http://images1.statlect.com/conditional_probability_mass_function__5.png)
such
that![[eq2]](http://images2.statlect.com/conditional_probability_mass_function__6.png)
for
any
.
You can find more details about the conditional probability mass function in the lecture entitled Conditional probability distributions.
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