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sionnach commented on the word mutually exclusive and exhaustive
often used in probability theory to describe a set of possible outcomes corresponding to a particular event when assigning a probability to the event. For instance, if a regular die is thrown once, the event result is an even number is equivalent to the mutually exclusive and exhaustive outcomes: result is a 2, result is a 4, result is a 6
October 29, 2007
seanahan commented on the word mutually exclusive and exhaustive
Is there another term for this? I've never heard it in probability theory.
October 29, 2007