STAT 103 midterm formula sheet

Eric Boulter
February 2024

Note that the first column of each table will be blank on the actual midterm

What to use this formula for Formula

# of orderings of an n-element set n! = n × (n − 1) × . . . × 2 × 1
n!
# of length-k lists from an n-element set (n−k)!
n n!


# of k-element subsets of an n-element set k = k!(n−k)!
n
P n
k n−k
Binomial theorem (expand powers of a + b) (a + b)n = k a b
k=0
n
P
Inclusion-exclusion principle P (A1 ∪ A2 ∪ A3 ) = P (Ak )
P k=1
(probability of union from intersections) − P (Ak ∩ Aj ) + . . .
1≤k<j≤n
Conditional probability formula P (E|F )P (F ) = P (E ∩ F )
Bayes’ rule (compute inverse probabilities) P (E|F ) = P (FP|E)P
(F )
(E)

Table 1: Helpful formulae

Name of the distribution Params. Sample Space Function

uniform distribution n {1, 2, . . . , n} m(x) = n1

n


binomial distribution n, p {0, 1, 2, . . . , n} m(k) = k pk (1 − p)n−k

geometric distribution p N − {0} m(n) = p(1 − p)n−1

e−λ λn
Poisson distribution λ N m(n) = n!

Table 2: Important Discrete Distributions