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Is it safe to say 'two distributions are 70% similar' if their total variation distance is 0.3?

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Is it safe to say 'two distributions are 70% similar' if their total variation distance is 0.3?

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Solving problem when the probability given itself is a random variable

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How to prove that the counting process of ON periods from a set of $N$ ON-OFF processes is Poissonian?

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If the probability of an event $A$ is $1$, and $B$ is any event, then $A$ and $B$ are independent.

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Given two independent random variables $X$ and $Y$, are $E[X|\mathcal{G}]$ and $E[Y|\mathcal{G}]$ independent necessarily?

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Is it safe to say 'two distributions are 70% similar' if their total variation distance is 0.3?

Solving problem when the probability given itself is a random variable

How to prove that the counting process of ON periods from a set of $N$ ON-OFF processes is Poissonian?

If the probability of an event $A$ is $1$, and $B$ is any event, then $A$ and $B$ are independent.

Building covariance matrix from paths in the inverse covariance

A question about probability (conflicting solutions)

Reinsurance claim size distribution written with respect to the distribution of the whole claim

Expected value of obtained dice faces by rolling a n-faced dice repeatedly

Probability that people are chosen in different groups?

Does this stochastic convergence hold?

2-player urn problem

Minimal conditions for being in $L^2$ across probability measures

Variance of mutually exclusive events

Given two independent random variables $X$ and $Y$, are $E[X|\mathcal{G}]$ and $E[Y|\mathcal{G}]$ independent necessarily?

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