Towards a Categorical Account of Conditional Probability

@article{Furber2013TowardsAC,
  title={Towards a Categorical Account of Conditional Probability},
  author={Robert Furber and Bart Jacobs},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2013},
  volume={abs/1306.0831}
}
QPL 2015 : 12th International Workshop on Quantum Physics and Logic, 13-17 July 2015, Oxford, United Kingdom 
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