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Probability theory is concerned with the outcomes of random experiments. These can be either real world processes or thought experiments. In both cases,
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the experiment has to be infinitely repeatable and
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there has to be a well-defined set of outcomes.
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Härdle, W.K., Klinke, S., Röonz, B. (2015). Probability Theory. In: Introduction to Statistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17704-5_3
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