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Basic Concepts of Probability Theory

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Thanks to Newton’s laws, dropping a stone from a height of 10 m, the point of time of its impact on the ground is known before executing the experiment.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Jürgen Franke

  2. Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz Chair of Statistics, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Wolfgang Karl Härdle

  3. Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modeling in Economics and Statistics, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    Christian Matthias Hafner

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Franke, J., Härdle, W.K., Hafner, C.M. (2019). Basic Concepts of Probability Theory. In: Statistics of Financial Markets. Universitext. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13751-9_3

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