Intersection
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The intersection of two sets is the set consisting of only the elements that appear in both sets.
- denotes the intersection of sets and .
- ex. means that "Alice is a part of both set and set ".
Two sets whose intersection is the empty set (in other words, have no element in common) are called disjoint.
Example: Yelp
- The set of Yelp users who like Biz1
- The set of Yelp users who like Biz2
The set is the set of users that liked both Biz1 and Biz2
When events are independent, we can use the multiplication rule for independent events, which states that:
- .