Showing posts with label Probability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Probability. Show all posts
Sunday, 12 June 2016
INTRODUCTION PROBABLITY
WHAT IS PROBABILITY???
Probability is the measure of the likelihood that an event will occur. Probability is quantified as a number between 0 and 1 (where 0 indicates impossibility and 1 indicates certainty).The higher the probability of an event, the more certain we are that the event will occur. A simple example is the tossing of a fair (unbiased) coin. Since the coin is unbiased, the two outcomes ("head" and "tail") are equally probable; the probability of "head" equals the probability of "tail." Since no other outcome is possible, the probability is 1/2 (or 50%) of either "head" or "tail". In other words, the probability of "head" is 1 out of 2 outcomes and the probability of "tail" is also, 1 out of 2 outcomes, expressed as 0.5 using the above mentioned quantification system.
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