11.1 Flashcards
The act of making an observation or taking a measurement…
Experiment
One of the possible things that an occur as a result of an experiment…..
Outcome
All the possible outcomes…..
Sample Space
any subset of the sample space….
event
an event occurring with equally relative frequency….
equally likely
Number of elements in E divided by the number of elements in S….
Probability of an event with equally likely outcomes
If P(E) = 0, then it is an…..
impossible event
If P(E) = 1, then it is a…..
Certain Event
Probability based on ideal occurrences…
Theoretical Probability
Computing probability by determining the ratio of the frequency of an event to the total number of repetitions…
Experimental Probability
When events are disjoint, they have no outcomes in common….
Mutually Exclusive
P(A) + P(B) - P(A disjoint to B)…….
P(A U B)
1 - P(A)
The compliment of event A