BIOL 2060 Lecture Notes - Continuous Or Discrete Variable, Mutual Exclusivity, Venn Diagram
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Random trial: trial or process that has 2 or more possible outcomes whose occurrences cannot be predicted. Sample space: list of all possible outcomes of a random trial. Event: any potential subset of the sample space. Probability: proportion of all random trials in which the specified event occurs when the same random process is repeated over and over again independently and under the same conditions. Venn diagram: area represents all possible outcomes of a random trial. Mutually exclusive: both events cannot occur simultaneously. Probability distribution: list of the probabilities of all mutually exclusive outcomes of a random trial. Discrete probability distribution: gives the probability of each possible value or outcome of a discrete variable. Probability density: allows us to describe the probability of any range of values (continuous probability distributions) , can find probability of a range by finding the area under the curve.
