We elaborate on an alternative representation of conditional probability to the usual tree diagram. We term the representation “turtleback diagram” for its resemblance to the pattern on turtle shells.

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Conditional probability occurs when it is given that something has happened. (Hint: look for the word “given” in the question. The probability that a tennis player wins the first set of a match is ...

Conditional probability occurs when it is given that something has happened. (Hint: look for the word “given” in the question. The probability that a tennis player wins the first set of a match is ...

Extant sequence reconstruction (ESR) is a workflow to calculate the conditional probability distribution of an extant sequence given an alignment, a phylogenetic tree, and an evolutionary model. What ...

Abstract: Decision tree algorithm is a very active research area of data mining. This paper describes the basic decision tree idea in data mining, then discusses the computational complexity of the ...