Probability and Probability Distributions Part III Probability and Probability Distributions

Chapter 5 Probability

Chapter 5 When we talk about probability, we are talking about a (mathematical) measure of how likely it is for some particular thing to happen Probability deals with chance behavior We study outcomes, or results of experiments Each time we conduct an experiment, we may get a different result Probability models the short-term behavior of experiments

Chapter 5 Descriptive statistics, describing and summarizing data, deals with data as it is Probability , modeling data, deals with data as it is predicted to be The combination of the two will let us do our inferential statistics techniques in Part IV

Chapter 5 Sections in Chapter 5 Probability Rules The Addition Rule and Complements Independence and the Multiplication Rule Conditional Probability and the General Multiplication Rule Counting Techniques Bayes’s Rule (on the CD) 5.6 5.5 5.1 5.2 5.4 5.3