Two events are said to be compatible if the occurrence of the first event does not prevent the occurrence of the second (or in other words, if the intersection between the two events is not null):
We can represent two compatible events A and B schematically in the following way:
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(2008). Compatibility. In: The Concise Encyclopedia of Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-32833-1_69
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