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arXiv · 1905.05596

Conditioning in tropical probability theory

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We define a natural operation of conditioning of tropical diagrams of probability spaces and show that it is Lipschitz continuous with respect to the asymptotic entropy distance.

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Rostislav Matveev, Jacobus W. Portegies. 2019-05-16. Conditioning in tropical probability theory. https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05596

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