stat
Subject:
Statistics [1]
Tags:
ch 3 [2]
Experiment: the chance that leads to the outcomes (flipping a coin) Outcome: result of a single trial (heads) Sample space: all possible outcomes (two coins: HH TT HT TH) Event: some specific outcomes Classical Probability: The compliment of (E) = is the set of all numbers not included in the outcomes of event E (compliment of rolling a 4 on a die is 1,2,3,5,6) Empirical Probability: (50 people surveyed with 21 with blood type o, what?s the probability that someone has blood type o? 21/50 subjective probability: uses a probability based on and educated guess or estimate (weather forecasting, sports predictions) -two events are mutually exclusive when they cannot occur at the same time