Chapter 1

Probability

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Section 1.1
Sample Space
Sample space is the basic term in the theory of probability. Means a complete list of all possible outcomes of a random experiment is called sample space or possibility space and is denoted by S. Each outcome is called element of the sample space.

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Definition 1.1

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Figure 1.0 Tree diagram an example

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Figure 1.1 Cartesian product an example

Sample space throwing two dice

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Figure 1.2 Tree Diagram an example

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Section 1.2
Events
An event is one or more outcomes of an experiment.

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Definition 1.2

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Definition 1.3

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Definition 1.4

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Definition 1.5

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Definition 1.6

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Section 1.3
Counting Sample Points

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Rule 1.1

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Figure 1.6 Tree diagram an example

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Rule 1.2

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Definition 1.7

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Definition 1.8

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Theorem 1.1

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Theorem 1.2

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Theorem 1.3

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Theorem 1.4

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Theorem 1.5

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Theorem 1.6

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Section 1.4
Probability of an Event

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Definition 1.9

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Rule 1.3

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Section 1.5
Additive Rules

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Theorem 1.7

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Figure 1.7 Additive rule of probability

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Corollary 1.1

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Corollary 1.2

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Corollary 1.3

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Theorem 1.8

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Theorem 1.9

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Section 1.6
Conditional Probability, Independence, and the Product Rule.

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Definition 1.10

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Table 1.1 Categorization of the Adults in a Small Town

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Definition 1.11

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Theorem 1.10

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Figure 1.8 Tree diagram an example

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Theorem 1.11

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Figure 1.9 Electrical system an example

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Theorem 1.12

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Definition 1.12

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Figure 1.10 Diagram an example

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Figure 1.11 Diagram an example

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Section 1.7
Bayes Rule

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Figure 1.12 Venn diagram for the events A, E and E

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Figure 1.13 Tree diagram for the data on page 63, using additional information on page 72

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Theorem 1.13

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Figure 1.14 Partition on sample space S

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Figure 1.15 Tree diagram and example

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Theorem 1.14

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Capisci?

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