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The law of total probability is[1] a theorem that states, in its discrete case, if is a finite or countably infinite partition of a sample space (in other words, a set of pairwise disjoint events whose union is the entire sample space) and each event is measurable, then for any event of the same sample space:

or, alternatively,[1]

where for any for which these terms are simply omitted from the summation since is finite.

  1. ^ a b Zwillinger, D., Kokoska, S. (2000) CRC Standard Probability and Statistics Tables and Formulae, CRC Press. ISBN 1-58488-059-7 page 31.