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ProbabilityForDummies
FromProbabilityForDummiesbyDeborahRumsey
Successfullyworkingyourwaythroughprobabilityproblemsmeans understandingsomebasicrulesofprobabilityalongwithdiscreteand continuousprobabilitydistributions.Usesomehelpfulstudytipsso you'rewellpreparedtotakeaprobabilityexam.
PrinciplesofProbability
Themathematicsfieldofprobabilityhasitsownrules,definitions,andlaws, whichyoucanusetofindtheprobabilityofoutcomes,events,orcombinations ofoutcomesandevents.Todetermineprobability,youneedtoaddorsubtract, multiplyordividetheprobabilitiesoftheoriginaloutcomesandevents.You usesomecombinationssooftenthattheyhavetheirownrulesandformulas. Thebetteryouunderstandtheideasbehindtheformulas,themorelikelyitis thatyou'llrememberthemandbeabletousethemsuccessfully.
Probabilityrules
Probabilitydefinitions Probabilitylaws
Countingrules
DiscreteProbabilityDistributions
Inprobability,adiscretedistributionhaseitherafiniteoracountablyinfinite numberofpossiblevalues.Thatmeansyoucanenumerateormakealisting ofallpossiblevalues,suchas1,2,3,4,5,6or1,2,3,... Thereareseveralkindsofdiscreteprobabilitydistributions,includingdiscrete uniform,binomial,Poisson,geometric,negativebinomial,andhypergeometric.
ContinuousProbabilityDistributions
Whenyouworkwithcontinuousprobabilitydistributions,thefunctionscan takemanyforms.Theseincludecontinuousuniform,exponential,normal, standardnormal(Z),binomialapproximation,Poissonapproximation,and distributionsforthesamplemeanandsampleproportion. Whenyouworkwiththenormaldistribution,youneedtokeepinmindthatit's acontinuousdistribution,notadiscreteone.Acontinuousdistribution's probabilityfunctiontakestheformofacontinuouscurve,anditsrandom variabletakesonanuncountablyinfinitenumberofpossiblevalues.This meansthesetofpossiblevaluesiswrittenasaninterval,suchasnegative infinitytopositiveinfinity,zerotoinfinity,oranintervallike[0,10],which representsallrealnumbersfrom0to10,including0and10.