Chapter 3 Flashcards

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Random experiment

A

A mechanism that produces a definite outcome without certainty

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2
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Sample Space

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The set of all possible outcomes

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3
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An event

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Is a collection of outcomes from sample space, or its any subset of the sample space

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4
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Probability rules

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  • must be from 0 to 1
  • must all add up to 1
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5
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Complements of events

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P(event) + P(not included in event) = 1

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6
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Mutually exclusive events

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They have no common shared data

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7
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Conditional probability

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