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Joint Probability Distribution
•Atomic event - an assignment of values to variable; a specific state of the world
•For simplicity, we'll treat all variables as Boolean (e.g. P(A), P(ØA), P(A^B))
•Joint probability P(X1,X2,…,Xn) - a function mapping atomic events to probabilities for atomic events