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title: "linear gaussian model"
type: concept
related: [Random Variables]
source: https://www.jemoka.com/posts/kbhlinear_gaussian_model/
confidence: high
status: active
---

Suppose you have continuous random variables \(X,Y\), you can use one to seed the value and the other to change the Gaussian distribution:
\begin{equation} p(x\mid y) = \mathcal{N}(x \mid my + b, \sigma^{2}) \end{equation}
