Probability, Statistics, and Stochastic Processes
Tahun : 2011Pengarang : Peter Olofsson Mikael Andersson
Penerbit : JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC.
Ket : Probability theory is the mathematics of randomness. This statement immediately invites the question “What is randomness?” This is a deep question that we cannot attempt to answer without invoking the disciplines of philosophy, psychology, mathematical complexity theory, and quantum physics, and still there would most likely be no completely satisfactory answer. For our purposes, an informal definition of randomness as “what happens in a situation where we cannot predict the outcome with certainty” is sufficient. In many cases, this might simply mean lack of information. For example, if we flip a coin, we might think of the outcome as random. It will be either heads or tails, but we cannot say which, and if the coin is fair, we believe that both outcomes are equally likely.
Ketegori : STATISTICS
