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After studying this chapter, you should be able to:
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PROBABILITY OF ERROR AND BIT
ERROR RATE
❑ Probability of error P(e) and bit error rate (BER) are often used
interchangeably, although in practice they do have slightly different
meanings. P(e) is a theoretical (mathematical) expectation of the bit
error rate for a given system.