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The object of probability theory is to describe and investigate mathematical models of random phenomena, primarily from a theoretical point of view. Closely related to probability theory is statistics, which is concerned with creating principles, methods, and criteria in order to treat data pertaining to such (random) phenomena or data from experiments and other observations of the real world, by using, for example, the theories and knowledge available from the theory of probability.
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Gut, A. (2012). Introductory Measure Theory. In: Probability: A Graduate Course. Springer Texts in Statistics, vol 75. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4708-5_1
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