Probability - Caltech

Independent RVs ! What if RVs are independent? RVs X 1 ,…,X n are independent, if for any assignment P(X 1 =x 1 ,…,X n =x n ) = P(x 1 ) P(x 2 ) … P(x n ) ! How many parameters are needed in this case? ! Independence too strong assump)on… Is there something weaker? 25