What is the product rule and what is the effect of it?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Soto, 30 Cal.App.4th 340, 35 Cal.Rptr.2d 846 (Cal. App. 1994):
3 In very general terms, the " 'product rule' ... states that the probability of the joint occurrence of a number of mutually independent events is equal to the product of the individual probabilities that each of the events will occur." (People v. Collins (1968) 68 Cal.2d 319, 325, 66 Cal.Rptr. 497, 438 P.2d 33, italics deleted.)
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