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  2. Notation in probability and statistics - Wikipedia

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    The probability is sometimes written to distinguish it from other functions and measure P to avoid having to define "P is a probability" and () is short for ({: ()}), where is the event space, is a random variable that is a function of (i.e., it depends upon ), and is some outcome of interest within the domain specified by (say, a particular ...

  3. Probability - Wikipedia

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    Probability is the branch of mathematics and statistics concerning events and numerical descriptions of how likely they are to occur. The probability of an event is a number between 0 and 1; the larger the probability, the more likely an event is to occur. [note 1] [1] [2] A simple example is the tossing of a fair (unbiased) coin. Since the ...

  4. Binomial distribution - Wikipedia

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    In probability theory and statistics, the binomial distribution with parameters n and p is the discrete probability distribution of the number of successes in a sequence of n independent experiments, each asking a yes–no question, and each with its own Boolean-valued outcome: success (with probability p) or failure (with probability q = 1 − p).

  5. Probability distribution - Wikipedia

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    A probability distribution is a mathematical description of the probabilities of events, subsets of the sample space. The sample space, often represented in notation by , is the set of all possible outcomes of a random phenomenon being observed.

  6. Normal distribution - Wikipedia

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    In probability theory, the Fourier transform of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable is closely connected to the characteristic function of that variable, which is defined as the expected value of , as a function of the real variable (the frequency parameter of the Fourier transform).

  7. Binomial coefficient - Wikipedia

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    Many calculators use variants of the C notation because they can represent it on a single-line display. In this form the binomial coefficients are easily compared to the numbers of k -permutations of n , written as P ( n , k ) , etc.

  8. Probability measure - Wikipedia

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    A probability measure mapping the σ-algebra for events to the unit interval. The requirements for a set function μ {\displaystyle \mu } to be a probability measure on a σ-algebra are that: μ {\displaystyle \mu } must return results in the unit interval [ 0 , 1 ] , {\displaystyle [0,1],} returning 0 {\displaystyle 0} for the empty set and 1 ...

  9. Big O in probability notation - Wikipedia

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    The order in probability notation is used in probability theory and statistical theory in direct parallel to the big O notation that is standard in mathematics.Where the big O notation deals with the convergence of sequences or sets of ordinary numbers, the order in probability notation deals with convergence of sets of random variables, where convergence is in the sense of convergence in ...