I have the following two probability distributions they relate to a particular ice-cream:
GenderProbabilities = {
male: 0.5,
female: 0.5,
}
AgeProbabilities = {
young: 0.4,
old: 0.6
}
So the tables describe the probability that the next customer will be male or female and if they are either young or old. A colleague claims that we can apply convolution to these tables and get something "meaningful" to describe this particular ice-cream. So I run the following in R:
convolve(c(0.5, 0.5), rev(c(0.4, 0.6)), type="o")
Which gives
0.2 0.5 0.3
However, I ask my colleague what does this actually mean and they are unable to respond. According to the definition on wikipedia it would mean something like:
{
male + young : 0.2,
(female + young) | (male + old) : 0.5,
female + old : 0.3
}
Is this interpretation correct?