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Understanding Sample Space in Probability

The document defines a sample space as the set of all possible outcomes of an experiment. For example, the sample space for tossing three coins would contain 8 possible outcomes listing the results of each coin toss. The possible values that the random variable representing the number of tails could take on for this experiment are {0,1,2,3}.

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Understanding Sample Space in Probability

The document defines a sample space as the set of all possible outcomes of an experiment. For example, the sample space for tossing three coins would contain 8 possible outcomes listing the results of each coin toss. The possible values that the random variable representing the number of tails could take on for this experiment are {0,1,2,3}.

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Sample space

Stats and Probability


definition
• Set of all the possible outcomes of an experiment
example
Tossing three coins: {THH, HHH, HHT, TTT, HTH, TTH, THT, HTT}
Possible values of the random variable Y (no.of tails): {0,1,2,3}

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