Class: STAT 131 Subject: statistics probability Date: 2025-01-06 Teacher: Prof. Marcela

Probability and counting

  • built upon the use of the set

Sample Space

  • a sample space of an experiment is the set of all possible outcomes of the experiment.

Event

  • an event is a subset of the sample space , and we say that occurred if the actual outcome is in .

Example of Experiments

  • Tossing a coin: {H, T}

Full Example

  • Experiment: Tossing a coin
  • Sample Space: { H, T }
  • Example of one event: { H }