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		jsprogrammer on Oct 14, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Visual Information Theory The problem with that example is that there is no reason to assume that coat wearing and rain are independent (in fact, you have even modeled that wearing a coat is partially dependent on it raining). Maybe I missed your point?

escherize on Oct 14, 2015 [–]

No, you're right those events shouldn't be called independent!

A defintition of independent events is:

    A and B are independent events iff P(A|B) = P(A) and P(B|A) = P(B)

So that was just plain wrong.

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