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  2. List of probability distributions - Wikipedia

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    The Dirac delta function, although not strictly a probability distribution, is a limiting form of many continuous probability functions. It represents a discrete probability distribution concentrated at 0 — a degenerate distribution — it is a Distribution (mathematics) in the generalized function sense; but the notation treats it as if it ...

  3. Buffon's needle problem - Wikipedia

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    We can calculate the probability P as the product of two probabilities: P = P 1 · P 2, where P 1 is the probability that the center of the needle falls close enough to a line for the needle to possibly cross it, and P 2 is the probability that the needle actually crosses the line, given that the center is within reach.

  4. Rule of succession - Wikipedia

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    In probability theory, the rule of succession is a formula introduced in the 18th century by Pierre-Simon Laplace in the course of treating the sunrise problem. [1] The formula is still used, particularly to estimate underlying probabilities when there are few observations or events that have not been observed to occur at all in (finite) sample data.

  5. Circular error probable - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... CEP concept and hit probability. 0.2% outside the outmost circle. ... is given by the following formula: (, ...

  6. Empirical probability - Wikipedia

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    In probability theory and statistics, the empirical probability, relative frequency, or experimental probability of an event is the ratio of the number of outcomes in which a specified event occurs to the total number of trials, [1] i.e. by means not of a theoretical sample space but of an actual experiment.

  7. Bernoulli trial - Wikipedia

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    Graphs of probability P of not observing independent events each of probability p after n Bernoulli trials vs np for various p.Three examples are shown: Blue curve: Throwing a 6-sided die 6 times gives a 33.5% chance that 6 (or any other given number) never turns up; it can be observed that as n increases, the probability of a 1/n-chance event never appearing after n tries rapidly converges to ...

  8. Exchangeable random variables - Wikipedia

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    Formally, an exchangeable sequence of random variables is a finite or infinite sequence X 1, X 2, X 3, ... of random variables such that for any finite permutation σ of the indices 1, 2, 3, ..., (the permutation acts on only finitely many indices, with the rest fixed), the joint probability distribution of the permuted sequence

  9. Saddlepoint approximation method - Wikipedia

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    The saddlepoint approximation method, initially proposed by Daniels (1954) [1] is a specific example of the mathematical saddlepoint technique applied to statistics, in particular to the distribution of the sum of independent random variables.