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Q106Section III (Statistics)106 of 190

Independence lets a compound conditioning event drop out

Let X1,X2,X3X_1,X_2,X_3 be independent identically distributed random variables with probability mass function: P[X=k]=0.2,0.3,0.1,0.4P[X=k]=0.2,0.3,0.1,0.4 for k=−1,0,1,2k=-1,0,1,2. Then P[X1+X2=0∣X2=1,X3=2]P[X_1+X_2=0\mid X_2=1,X_3=2] is:

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