Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data (4th Edition)

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Chapter 5 - Section 5.1 - Assess Your Understanding - Explaining the Concepts - Page 268: 59

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Classical probability: each outcome has the same probability of occurring. So, we can calculate the probability of any event before a experiment occurs. $P(E)=\frac{\text {number of ways that an event E can occur}}{\text{number of possible outcomes}}=\frac{m}{n}$ Empirical probability: the probability of an event E is approximately the number of times event E is observed divided by the number of repetitions of the experiment. $P(E)\approx relative frequency of E=\frac{\text{frequency of E}}{\text{number of trials of experiment}}$
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