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Short Communication - (2020)Volume 10, Issue 3

Short Communication on Probability and Statistics

Albert S*
 
*Correspondence: Albert S, Associate Professor, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, Email:

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Abstract

Probability theory is that the formalization and study of the mathematics of uncertain events or knowledge. The related field of mathematical statistics develops statistical theory with mathematics. Statistics, the science concerned with collecting and analyzing data, is an autonomous discipline (and not a subdiscipline of applied mathematics). There is really no answer to the current question. Some people consider it as ‘limiting frequency’. That is, to mention that the probability of getting heads when a coin is tossed means, if the coin is tossed again and again, it's likely to return down heads about half the time. But if you toss a coin 1000 times, you're not going to urge exactly 500 heads. You wouldn’t be surprised to urge only 495. But what about 450, or 100? Some people would say that you just can figure out probability by physical arguments, just like the one we used for a good coin. But this argument doesn’t add all cases, and it doesn’t explain what probability means. Some people say it's subjective. You say that the probability of heads during a coin toss is 1/2 because you've got no reason for thinking either heads or tails more lik

Probability theory is that the formalization and study of the mathematics of uncertain events or knowledge. The related field of mathematical statistics develops statistical theory with mathematics. Statistics, the science concerned with collecting and analyzing data, is an autonomous discipline (and not a subdiscipline of applied mathematics). There is really no answer to the current question. Some people consider it as ‘limiting frequency’. That is, to mention that the probability of getting heads when a coin is tossed means, if the coin is tossed again and again, it's likely to return down heads about half the time. But if you toss a coin 1000 times, you're not going to urge exactly 500 heads. You wouldn’t be surprised to urge only 495. But what about 450, or 100? Some people would say that you just can figure out probability by physical arguments, just like the one we used for a good coin. But this argument doesn’t add all cases, and it doesn’t explain what probability means. Some people say it's subjective. You say that the probability of heads during a coin toss is 1/2 because you've got no reason for thinking either heads or tails more likely; you may change your view if you knew that the owner of the coin was a magician or a gouger. We develop ways of doing calculations with probability, in order that (for example) we will calculate how unlikely it's to induce 480 or fewer heads in 1000 tosses of a good coin. the solution agrees well with experiment. Applied mathematics is that the branch of mathematics concerned with probability. Although there are several different probability interpretations, math treats the concept in an exceedingly rigorous mathematical manner by expressing it through a gaggle of axioms. Typically these axioms formalise probability in terms of a probability space, which assigns a measure taking values between 0 and 1, termed the probability measure, to a group of outcomes called the sample space. Any specified subset of these outcomes is known as a happening. The earliest known varieties of probability and statistics were developed by Arab mathematicians studying cryptography between the 8th and 13th centuries. a vital contribution of Ibn Adlan (1187–1268) was on sample size to be used of frequency analysis Central subjects in maths include discrete and continuous random variables, probability distributions, and frameworkes, which give mathematical abstractions of non-deterministic or uncertain processes or measured quantities which is able to either be single occurrences or evolve over time in an exceedingly very random fashion. Although it's impossible to perfectly predict random events, much are often said about their behavior. Two major finally ends up in mathematics describing such behaviour are the law of enormous numbers and also the central limit theorem. As a mathematical foundation for statistics, mathematics is very important to many human activities that involve measure of information. Methods of math also apply to descriptions of complex systems given only partial knowledge of their state, as in natural science. Discrete maths deals with events that occur in countable sample spaces. Examples: Throwing dice, experiments with decks of cards, stochastic process, and tossing coins Classical definition: Initially the probability of a happening to occur was defined because the quantity of cases favorable for the event, over the quantity of total outcomes possible in an equiprobable sample space. Continuous mathematics deals with events that occur in an exceedingly very continuous sample space. Classical definition: The classical definition breaks down when confronted with the continual case. Modern definition: If the tip result space of a variable X is that the set of real numbers or a subset thereof, then a function called the cumulative distribution function F exists, defined by F(x)=P(X≤x).

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Albert S*
 
Associate Professor, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland
 

Citation: Albert S (2020) Short Communication on Probability and Statistics. Mathematica Eterna. 10: 112. 10.35248/1314-3344.20.10.112.

Received: 15-Aug-2020 Accepted: 23-Aug-2020 Published: 30-Aug-2020 , DOI: 10.35248/1314-3344.20.10.112

Copyright: © 2020 Albert S. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited

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