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development of probability theory

  • TITLE: probability theory (mathematics)
    SECTION: Applications of simple probability experiments
    ...the dice as identifiable (say by a difference in colour), so that the outcome (1, 2) is different from (2, 1). An “event” is a well-defined subset of the sample space. For example, the event “the sum of the faces showing on the two dice equals six” consists of the five outcomes (1, 5), (2, 4), (3, 3), (4, 2), and (5, 1).
  • TITLE: statistics (science)
    SECTION: Events and their probabilities
    Oftentimes probabilities need to be computed for related events. For instance, advertisements are developed for the purpose of increasing sales of a product. If seeing the advertisement increases the probability of a person buying the product, the events “seeing the advertisement” and “buying the product” are said to be dependent. If two events are independent, the...


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