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Why We Need Probability Aspects of the world seem random and unpredictable o Are we tall or short? o Do we have Mom’s eyes or Dad’s chin? o Is the eye of the hurricane going to pass over City X? o Which team will win a best of seven series? o How long will it takes us to drive to the airport? o How long will it be before the next bus comes?
Why We Need Probability Aspects of the world seem random and unpredictable Probability is a way of thinking about unpredictable phenomenon as if they were each generated from some random process It turns out that we can by thinking of phenomena in this way we can describe these random processes with math
Basic Definitions Think of a random process as a trial or an experiment Def: The sample space
is the set of all possible outcomes of the experiment
Example: If we flip a fair coin a single time, what is the sample space?
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the probability is a measure between 0 and 1 of how likely it is for
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is 1. Why?
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