Probability Vocabulary
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| Outcome | A possible result of a situation or experiment.
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| Event | One or more outcomes together
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| Sample Space | The set of all possible outcomes
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| Experimental Probability | The likelihood of an event occurring based on the results of an experiment.
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| Theoretical Probability | The likelihood of an event occurring based only on the situation, not on the results of an experiment.
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| Complement of an Event | All possible outcomes that are not part of an event.
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| Frequency Table | A data display that shows how often an item appears in a category.
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| Relative Frequency | The ratio of a frequency over the total frequency.
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| Set | A collection of elements where order doesn't matter.
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| Subset | If all elements of set A are in set B, then set A is called this.
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| Venn Diagram | A visual representation of sets and subsets
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| Two-way Frequency Table | This displays data in two different sets of categories.
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| Conditional Probability | The likelihood that an event will occur, given that another event has already occurred.
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| Union | This includes all elements in one set or the other.
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| Intersection | This includes only the elements in common between one set and another.
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| Compound Event | An event that is made up of two or more events.
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| Independent Events | Events that do not affect how each other occurs.
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| Dependent Events | Events where one affects how the other occurs.
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| Mutually Exclusive Events | Events that cannot happen at the same time.
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| Overlapping Events | Events that can happen at the same time.
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| Tree Diagram | A diagram that has a branching structure resembling a tree.
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| Permutation | A selection of items where order matters.
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| Combination | A selection of items where order doesn't matter.
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| Geometric Probability | The likelihood that a random point will be on a segment or region in a plane.
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