Transcription of Chapter 5 An Introduction to Discrete Probability
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Chapter 5An Introduction to Discrete Sample Space, Outcomes, Events, ProbabilityRoughly speaking, Probability theory deals with experiments whose outcome arenot predictable with certainty. We often call such are subject to chance. Using a mathematical theory of Probability , we may beable to calculate the likelihood of some the Introduction to his classical book [1] (first published in 1888), JosephBertrand (1822 1900) writes (translated from French to English): How dare we talk about the laws of chance (in French: le hasard)?
To be fair, Jacob Bernoulli, Abraham de Moivre, Pafnuty Chebyshev, Alek- ... Remark: Even though the term probability distribution is commonly used, this is not a good practice because there is also a notion of (cumulative) distribution func-
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