Rules of Conditional Independence
A set of rules governing statements of conditional independence have been derived from the basic definition.
Note: since these implications hold for any probability space, they will still hold if considers a sub-universe by conditioning everything on another variable, say K. For example, would also mean that .
Note: below, the comma can be read as an "AND".
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