Marginal Probability
The marginal probability is defined in terms of only one of the set of variables X,Y . For a discrete probability we have
p(X)=\sum_{i=0}^{n-1}p(X,Y=y_i)=\sum_{i=0}^{n-1}p(X\vert Y=y_i)p(Y=y_i)=\sum_{i=0}^{n-1}p(X\vert y_i)p(y_i).