Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data (4th Edition)

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Chapter 5 - Section 5.6 - Assess Your Understanding - Vocabulary and Skill Building - Page 311: 2

Answer

The Empirical Approach

Work Step by Step

It is empirical because we need to observe an experiment. The more we observe it the more accurate is the result. Then we divide the number of times an event was observed (frequency of $E$) by the number of times the experiment was repeated in order to obtain the relative frequency of $E$.
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