Sample Space S : set of all possible outcomes of conceptual/physical, repeatable experiment
Event A : any subset of S
Probability Theory:
- Sample space is a collection of all possible outcomes
- Random variables X represent outcomes in sample space
- Probability of a random variable to happen $p(x) = p(X= x), p(x) ≥ 0$
Continuous variable:
$\int_{x}p(x)dx = 1$
- Continuous probability distribution
- Probability density function
- Density or likelihood value
- Temperature (real number)
- Gaussian Distribution
Continuous Probability Function examples
- Uniform Density Function
$f_x(x) = \begin{cases}\frac{1}{b-a} \text{ for a ≤ x≤ b}, \\0 \text{ otherwise}\end{cases}$