Are mutually exclusive events independent? @jbstatistics

Uploaded January 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

Are mutually exclusive events independent? I get asked variants of this question frequently, so it’s evident that some students confuse these two concepts. The one sentence summary: If A and B are mutually exclusive events, then they are independent if and only if P(A) = 0 or P(B) = 0. I take a more detailed look in this video.

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