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The word event is used as a general term for one of the possible outcomes from a trial or observational situation. Section 2.7 discusses several trials with outcomes that must be one of two events (spin of a coin, birth of a child, etc.), and later refers to trials with outcomes that can be classified as one of three or more events.
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Finney, D.J. (1980). Combining probabilities. In: Statistics for Biologists. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5855-5_3
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