Math WS 3 Vocab Quiz

A group of events, {A1, A2, …, An}, such that all events have the same probability

• Exhaustive group of events

• Group of mutually independent events

• Equiprobable group of events

• Mutually exclusive group of events

Any procedure that can be infinitely repeated mentally and always produces exactly one outcome from a well-defined set of outcomes

• Trial

• Experiment

• Event

• Sample space

A subset of the sample set of a random experiment; Alternative definition – it is a scenario that, as a result of a random experiment, may or may not occur, or might or might not have occurred

• Trial

• Experiment

• Event

• Sample space

A group of events that has special properties.

• Field of events

• Group of mutually independent events

• Special group of events

• Mutually exclusive group of events

The set of all possible outcomes of a given experiment

• Trial

• Experiment

• Event

• Sample space

A group of events which contains the sample space, contains the complement of any event in _, and contains the union of any countable sequence of events in _.

• Field of events

• Group of mutually independent events

• σ-field of events

• Mutually exclusive group of events

It is a ____, whose domain contains some random events, and whose range is the closed real interval, [0, 1]. That ____ assigns a real number from its range to any random event from its domain, called probability, such that the higher the probability, the more likely the event.

• Compound event

• Probability function

• Event

• Sample space

The event, C, which is true if and only if the event, A, is true provided that the event, B, is true

• Compound event

• Certain event

• Event

• Conditional event

A group of events which contains the sample space, contains the complement of any event which is in _, and contains the union of any two events in _.

• Field of events

• Group of mutually independent events

• σ-field of events

• Mutually exclusive group of events

An individual mental repetition of an experiment, which produces an outcome from its sample space

• Trial

• Experiment

• Event

• Sample space