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sample space

American

noun

Mathematics.

the collection of all possible results of an experiment, represented as points.

sample space British

noun

statistics the set of possible outcomes of an experiment; the range of values of a random variable

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Etymology

Origin of sample space

First recorded in 1950–55

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To calculate the probability of an event, we divide the number of possible outcomes of the event by the number of possible outcomes of the sample space.

From Textbooks ● Sep. 23, 2020

It is a subset of the sample space, so uppercase letters like A and B are commonly used to represent events.

From Textbooks ● Mar. 27, 2020

The Health Index Scores are the sample space.

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There are four main ways to represent a sample space:

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The sample space is listed below the distribution.

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