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I want to ask you about the notation in probability.
I know that
P(A | B) = the conditional probability that event A occurs given that
event B has occurred already
But I cannot find what A,B or in my case P(A|B,C). I suggest it means “the conditional probability that event A occurs given that B and C BOTH occurred already”
I don’t know what the comma means.
Can you help me ?
You are basically correct.
P(A| B) is the probability of A given B.
P(A| B, C) is the probability of A given (B and C).
You could just as easily write it as P(A| B ∧ C) but it is notational convention to use a comma.
Think of everything after the vertical bar as a list of the given things, separated by commas.
(And note that the vertical bar is a very high precedence operator, so to speak.)