The classical definition of probability or classical interpretation of probability is identified with the works of Jacob Bernoulli and Pierre-Simon Laplace:...
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the field of probability, championed by Pierre-Simon Laplace, is now known as the classical definition. Developed from studies of games of chance (such...
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space: see Classical definition of probability. For example, if the event is "occurrence of an even number when a dice is rolled", the probability is given...
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Quantum Markov chain (category Exotic probabilities)
reformulation of the ideas of a classical Markov chain, replacing the classical definitions of probability with quantum probability. Very roughly, the theory of a...
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Frequentist probability or frequentism is an interpretation of probability; it defines an event's probability (the long-run probability) as the limit of its relative...
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Gambling mathematics (redirect from Mathematics of gambling)
gambling probability applications. In games of chance, most of the gambling probability calculus in which we use the classical definition of probability reverts...
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Clark–Ocone theorem Class membership probabilities Classic data sets Classical definition of probability Classical test theory – psychometrics Classification...
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A definition is a statement of the meaning of a term (a word, phrase, or other set of symbols). Definitions can be classified into two large categories:...
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finite-dimensional. We first discuss the classical case. Suppose the probabilities of a finite sequence of events is given by the probability distribution P = {p1...pn}...
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Probability is a branch of mathematics and statistics concerning events and numerical descriptions of how likely they are to occur. The probability of...
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probability. As with the classical Shannon entropy and its quantum generalization, the von Neumann entropy, one can define a conditional version of min-entropy...
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In probability theory, a probability distribution is infinitely divisible if it can be expressed as the probability distribution of the sum of an arbitrary...
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quantum mechanics, a probability amplitude is a complex number used for describing the behaviour of systems. The square of the modulus of this quantity at...
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probability current (sometimes called probability flux) is a mathematical quantity describing the flow of probability. Specifically, if one thinks of...
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In probability theory, there exist several different notions of convergence of sequences of random variables, including convergence in probability, convergence...
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Noncrossing partition (category Families of sets)
a sum of free cumulants over the sum non-crossing partitions. This is the free analogue of the moment-cumulant formula in classical probability. See also...
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Phi (redirect from 21st letter of the Greek alphabet)
Modern Greek: φι fi [fi]) is the twenty-first letter of the Greek alphabet. In Archaic and Classical Greek (c. 9th to 4th century BC), it represented an...
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Bayes' theorem (redirect from Bayes' theorem of subjective probability)
known as the prior probability and marginal probability. Bayes' theorem may be derived from the definition of conditional probability: P ( A | B ) = P (...
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In probability theory and statistics, the characteristic function of any real-valued random variable completely defines its probability distribution. If...
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Free independence (category Free probability theory)
the mathematical theory of free probability, the notion of free independence was introduced by Dan Voiculescu. The definition of free independence is parallel...
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Entropy (statistical thermodynamics) (section Order through chaos and the second law of thermodynamics)
probability theory. The statistical entropy perspective was introduced in 1870 by Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann, who established a new field of...
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Quantum mutual information (section Definition)
finite-dimensional. The definition of quantum mutual entropy is motivated by the classical case. For a probability distribution of two variables p(x, y)...
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Markov chain (redirect from Transition probability)
In probability theory and statistics, a Markov chain or Markov process is a stochastic process describing a sequence of possible events in which the probability...
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A prior probability distribution of an uncertain quantity, simply called the prior, is its assumed probability distribution before some evidence is taken...
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Entropy (information theory) (redirect from Entropy of a probability distribution)
measures the expected amount of information needed to describe the state of the variable, considering the distribution of probabilities across all potential states...
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microstate has a certain probability of occurring during the course of the system's thermal fluctuations. In contrast, the macrostate of a system refers to...
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Expected value (redirect from Linearity of expectation)
of the weighted average. Informally, the expected value is the mean of the possible values a random variable can take, weighted by the probability of...
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is a strictly positive probability measure. Given classical Wiener measure γ on C0, the product measure γ n × γ is a probability measure on C, where γ n...
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The probability of the outcome of an experiment is never negative, although a quasiprobability distribution allows a negative probability, or quasiprobability...
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Stochastic process (redirect from Version (probability theory))
In probability theory and related fields, a stochastic (/stəˈkæstɪk/) or random process is a mathematical object usually defined as a family of random...
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