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• Mutually exclusive events — For the programming algorithms, see Mutual exclusion. In layman s terms, two events are mutually exclusive if they cannot occur at the same time. An example is tossing a coin once, which can result in either heads or tails, but not both. In the… …   Wikipedia

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• Bernoulli trial — noun Etymology: Jacques Bernoulli died 1705 Swiss mathematician Date: 1951 one of the repetitions of a statistical experiment having exactly two mutually exclusive outcomes each with a constant probability of occurrence …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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• binary — 1. Comprising two components, elements, molecules, etc. 2. Denoting a choice of two mutually exclusive outcomes for one event ( e.g., male or female, heads or tails, affected or unaffected). [L. binarius, consisting of two, fr. bini, two at a… …   Medical dictionary

• logit — The logarithm of the ratio of frequencies of two different categorical and mutually exclusive outcomes such as healthy and sick …   Medical dictionary

• Bernoulli trials — in statistics, a series of independent trials, each having only two mutually exclusive outcomes, commonly called “success” and “failure,” so that if the probability of success is p and that of failure is q, then p + q = 1 and the… …   Medical dictionary

• bernoulli trial — noun Usage: usually capitalized B Etymology: after Jacques Bernoulli : one of the repetitions of a statistical experiment having two mutually exclusive outcomes with constant probability of occurrence …   Useful english dictionary

• Collectively exhaustive events — In probability theory, a set of events is jointly or collectively exhaustive if at least one of the events must occur. For example, when rolling a six sided die, the outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are collectively exhaustive, because they… …   Wikipedia

• Principle of indifference — The principle of indifference (also called principle of insufficient reason) is a rule for assigning epistemic probabilities.Suppose that there are n gt; 1 mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive possibilities.The principle of indifference …   Wikipedia