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Prob Stats Unit 2
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| If the occurrence of one event does not affect the occurrence of another event, these events are said to be....... | Independant |
| According to the......... the observed proportion of a specific outcome gets closer to the true probability of that outcome as we increase our number of repetitions or trials. | Law of large numbers |
| To calculate......... probability, find the relative frequency of the desired outcome in a number of observed trials. | empirical |
| According to the....... the sampling distribution of the sample mean approaches a normal distribution as n increases towards infinity. | central Limit theorem |
| . The set of outcomes in which the desired event does not occur is called the.......... of that event | complement |
| The standard normal (z) distribution has a mean of......... and a standard deviation of....... | "/0" 1 |
| List the four requirements of a binomial distribution. | 2 poss outcomes fixed n independent trials Fixed prob of success |
| Emperical | Predicting outcomes based on real-world data |
| classical | Games of chance involving coins, dice, or cards, where outcomes are easily quantifiable and have equal likelihood. |
| subjective | Unique, "one-shot" situations where it is impossible to perform repeated trials, like assessing the likelihood of a business succeeding or the outcome of a specific political event. |