Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data (4th Edition)

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Chapter 4 - Section 4.4 - Assess Your Understanding - Vocabulary and Skill Building - Page 242: 1

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A marginal distribution. A marginal distribution of a variable is a frequency or relative frequency distribution of either the row or column variable in the contingency table. A conditional distribution. The conditional distribution is the probability distribution,given a fixed value of another random variable. So, in order to obtain the conditional distribution of a variable, the probability of that variable is computed according to the condition that another variable is imposed on it. Conditional distribution probabilities can be calculated by using the following formula: \[\left( \begin{align} & \text{Conditional probability of }{{x}_{j}}\text{ variable} \\ & \text{ for given value of }{{y}_{i}}\text{ variable} \\ \end{align} \right)=\frac{\text{Joint frequency of }{{x}_{j}}\text{ and }{{y}_{i}}}{\text{Total frequency of }{{x}_{j}}}\]

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