Probability theory or probability calculus is the branch of mathematics concerned with probability. Although there are several different probability interpretations...
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Independence is a fundamental notion in probability theory, as in statistics and the theory of stochastic processes. Two events are independent, statistically...
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In probability theory, a martingale is a sequence of random variables (i.e., a stochastic process) for which, at a particular time, the conditional expectation...
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In probability theory and statistics, a copula is a multivariate cumulative distribution function for which the marginal probability distribution of each...
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computer science, game theory, and philosophy to, for example, draw inferences about the expected frequency of events. Probability theory is also used to describe...
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In the theory of stochastic processes, a subdiscipline of probability theory, filtrations are totally ordered collections of subsets that are used to...
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Bayesian probability (/ˈbeɪziən/ BAY-zee-ən or /ˈbeɪʒən/ BAY-zhən) is an interpretation of the concept of probability, in which, instead of frequency or...
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In probability theory, an event is a set of outcomes of an experiment (a subset of the sample space) to which a probability is assigned. A single outcome...
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In probability theory and statistics, two real-valued random variables, X {\displaystyle X} , Y {\displaystyle Y} , are said to be uncorrelated if their...
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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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