Imagine you are a juror for a murder trial. The victim, a 29-year-old woman, was stabbed to death in her home. The defendant is a 30-year-old man, who is a neighbor of the victim.

A blog by Alyssa Berns and Tatiana Ramallo. What you want is the probability of guilt given that there was a DNA match. The probability that a specific event occurs given that another one occurs.

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8211; probability of some event A, given the occurrence of some other event B. 8211; statistical inference in which evidence or observations are used to update or to newly infer the probability that a hypothesis may be true. 8211; a marginal probability, interpreted as a description of what is known about a variable in the absence of some evidence. During the trial, after you hear m.

Posted on February 26, 2008. What we are trying to find is the probability that the defendent is guilty given that there was a DNA match.

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8211; probability of some event A, given the occurrence of some other event B. 8211; statistical inference in which evidence or observations are used to update or to newly infer the probability that a hypothesis may be true. 8211; a marginal probability, interpreted as a description of what is known about a variable in the absence of some evidence.