Table 1.
Marginal and joint probability distributions for an example system of two dependent coins.
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The joint distribution describe the likelihood for each possible combination of the two coins. The marginal distributions describe the likelihood for each coin alone. Marginal distributions can be found by summing across rows or columns of the joint distribution (Eqn. 1).