Write , and . The law of total probability gives the displayed convex combination. With fixed and free in ,With fixed and free in ,The joint cell masses are nonnegative and sum to one, proving sharpness in the joint-model interpretation. For ordinary conditional probabilities, a conditioning event must have positive mass. If both and are specified by ratios, then : for the last bounds are strict and their endpoints are the infimum and supremum. If , the marginal equals that common value for every . Endpoint mixtures remain meaningful if the unused zero-mass conditional is treated as a prescribed conditional model rather than a defined ratio.
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