Bayes for heavy preparers among offer holders
Question
Among students, prepare heavily on a study platform, prepare lightly and do not use it. A heavy user is twice as likely to land an offer as a light user, and a light user is twice as likely as a non-user. Given that a student has an offer, what is the probability that they were a heavy user?
Short answer
. Let non-users succeed with probability , so light users have and heavy users . By Bayes, the posterior is ; the unknown cancels.
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- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
- Worked Examples — Probability Trees, Monty Hall, and Bayesian Updating
- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
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