Abstract
In Probability Theory the basic object is a probability space (ΩSP) where
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Sis the collection of all possibleoutcomes of a given experiment;
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Sis a family of subsets of Ω, called the family ofevents; and
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Pis a function fromS into [0, 1] assigning to each eventA∈S itsprobability P(A).
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Brémaud, P. (1988). Basic Concepts and Elementary Models. In: An Introduction to Probabilistic Modeling. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1046-7_1
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