Summary

Rules

Relationships between events

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Concept

Sample space

  • set of all possible outcomes called sample points
  • the universal set in the context of the statistical experiment

Events

  • any subset of the sample space
  • sure event is the sample space
  • null event is the empty set

Event operations

Application

Coin toss

Fair die

Two dice

note the difference in notation between sets and tuples