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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Origin of sample space

First recorded in 1950–55

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sample space

An event A is a subset of the sample space S. For example, the event “Rolling an even number” is the subset 2,4,6.

From Textbooks ● Sep. 23, 2020

There are four main ways to represent a sample space:

From Textbooks ● Mar. 27, 2020

There we used tree diagrams to track the changes in the probabilities, because the sample space changed as we drew without replacement.

From Textbooks ● Nov. 29, 2017

If we are after a probability we really do not need to see each and every element in the sample space, we only need to know how many elements are there.

From Textbooks ● Nov. 29, 2017

We see that probabilities are nothing more than counting the events in each group we are interested in and dividing by the number of elements in the universe, or sample space.

From Textbooks ● Nov. 29, 2017

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