What Conditioning Is Not
On the discrete level conditioning is possible only if the condition is of nonzero probability (one cannot divide by zero). On the level of densities, conditioning on X = x is possible even though P ( X = x ) = 0. This success may create the illusion that conditioning is always possible. Regretfully, it is not, for several reasons presented below.
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