Glossaria.net

Glossary Statistics / Term

Event

An event is a subset of outcome space. An event determined by a random variable is an event of the form A=(X is in A). When the random variable X is observed, that determines whether or not A occurs: if the value of X happens to be in A, A occurs; if not, A does not occur.

Permanent link Event - Creation date 2021-08-07


< Estimator Glossary / Statistics Exhaustive >