PDF-UNRAVELLING BASIC PROBABILITY THEORY probability theory "mutually excl

tunity to of six a total of the of being a winner of the and the last of the of other think that on each is essentially what we mean heads on toss are event occurred of the have no of the a poker i. With an Emphasis on Contingency . Tables. Students in PSYC 2101. Skip to Slide . # 7. . Random Variable. A . random variable. is real valued function defined on a sample space. .. The . sample space. June) 18 (excl. Tuesday 8 November) \r\f\f\n\t\r\b\n Examples of independent events. You . flip a coin and get a heads . and.  you flip a second coin and get a tails. . The . two coins don't influence each other. .. The . probability of rain today . Hipster Venn Diagram. What if…. We wanted the probability of event A happening OR event B happening. ?. To answer this we first must define a few things. Mutually exclusive events are…. two events that have . Laws of. Probability. Exhaustive events. When a normal, unbiased, 6-sided die is thrown, the numbers 1 to 6 are possible.. These are the ONLY ‘events’ possible.. This means these are EXHAUSTIVE as they cover ALL POSSIBLE OUTCOMES.. Section 5.1. An event is the set of possible outcomes. Probability is between 0 and 1. The event A has a complement, the event not A. Together these two probabilities sum 1.. . ex. At least one and none are complements. WHAT ARE THE CHANCES?. WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH A MILLION DOLLARS?. Invest in the fishing industry!. HOW MIGHT YOU FIND YOURSELF WITH . THIS AMOUNT . OF MONEY?. These people won 2.4 million pounds……... Today we will…. Recap last week and correct homework. Mutually exclusive and non mutually exclusive events. Use of Venn Diagrams to represent mutually exclusive events. Mutually Exclusive Events. 1. Lecture No. . 18. Chapter 5. Contemporary Engineering . Economics. Copyright © . 2016. Comparing Mutually Exclusive . Projects: Basic Terminologies. Revenue Versus Service Projects. Revenue Projects. . Elementary Probability Theory. 5. Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.. . Section. . 5.2. Some Probability Rules—Compound Events. Focus Points. Compute probabilities of general compound events.. Probability Terminology. Classical Interpretation. : Notion of probability based on equal likelihood of individual possibilities (coin toss has 1/2 chance of Heads, card draw has 4/52 chance of an Ace). Origins in games of chance.. to a Healthy Start CAN/CI Initiative . Peer Learning Network Call #5. Mutually Reinforcing Activities. October 2015 . Agenda. Welcome. Check-In. Group Discussion. Today’s Objectives. Wrap- In. Revisit Shared Measurement. Probability. The study of the occurrence of random events or phenomena.. It does not deal with guarantees, but with the likelihood of an occurrence of an event.. Experiment:. - Any observation or measurement of a random phenomenon.. Dr J Frost (jfrost@tiffin.kingston.sch.uk). www.drfrostmaths.com. . Last modified: . 17. th. November 2015. For Teacher Use. Recommended lesson structure:. Lesson 1. : Finding probabilities by enumerating outcomes (Ex 1).