Saturday, March 26, 2011

brain teaser. Probability.

某城市发生了一起汽车撞人逃跑事件。该城市只有两种颜色的车,蓝色15%,绿色85%。
事发时有一个人在现场看见了,他指证是蓝车。但是根据专家在现场分析,当时那种条
件能看正确的可能性是80%。
那么,肇事的车是蓝车的概率到底是多少?

Conditional probability, joint probability.

B: the car is blue P(B) = 0.15
S: claim a car is blue
P(S) = P(B) * 0.8 + P(-B) * 0.2 = 0.15 * 0.8 + 0.85 * 0.2
P(BS)= P(B)*0.8=0.15 * 0.8
P(B|S) = P(BS)/P(S) = 41.37%

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