{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "# Exercises Set 2 - Probability Theory" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Question 1\n", "N people are seated around a (round) table. What's the probability that fixed two people sit next to each other?" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Question 2\n", "Let $\\Omega$ be a set of possible outcomes of an experiment. Let $\\mathcal{F}$ be a collection of subsets of $\\Omega$ that are closed under countable unions. What could be properties that allow us to define a probability function $P \\colon \\mathcal{F} \\to [0,1]$? If we remove the constraint that $\\mathcal{F}$ is not closed under countable unions, can we define a probability function? " ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Question 3\n", "In an experiment involving two events, $A$ and $B$ are known to have $P(A) = 0.5$ and $P(B) = 0.65$. It is suspected that these two events can be independent. However $P(A \\cap B)$ can not be determined by means of theory. So you run an experiment $500$ times and record that $A \\cup B$ occurs 497 times. What would you conclude regarding independence between $A$ and $B$?" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Question 4\n", "\n" ] } ], "metadata": { "kernelspec": { "display_name": "Julia 1.1.0", "language": "julia", "name": "julia-1.1" }, "language_info": { "file_extension": ".jl", "mimetype": "application/julia", "name": "julia", "version": "1.1.0" } }, "nbformat": 4, "nbformat_minor": 2 }