Abstract
One of our illustrations of combinations in the last chapter was the number of ways that the baseball World Series could last four games, five games, six games, and seven games. Our interest there was to show how counting numbers of ways is part and parcel of probability calculations. That example led to a set of probabilities for the possible lengths of the series. When the events of concern in an uncertain situation are numerical and we have obtained the probabilities for all possible events, we have what is called a probability distribution.
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Peters, W.S. (1987). Craps and Binomial. In: Counting for Something. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4638-1_6
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