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| Event A set of possible outcomes resulting from a particular experiment. For example, a possible event when a single six-sided die is rolled is {5, 6}. That is, the roll could be a 5 or a 6. In general, an event is any subset of a sample space (including the possibility of an the empty set). See also Probability | |
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