Abstract
The subject matter of probability theory is the mathematical analysis of random events, i.e., of those empirical phenomena which—under certain circumstance—can be described by saying that:
They do not have deterministic regularity (observations of them do not yield the same outcome);
whereas at the same time
They possess some statistical regularity (indicated by the statistical stability of their frequency).
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Shiryaev, A.N. (1996). Introduction. In: Probability. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 95. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2539-1_1
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