certain event (English, noun)
expansion: certain event (plural certain events)
Senses:
topics: mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
glosses: An event that contains all of the possible outcomes and thus is known a priori to be certain to occur;
topics: mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
glosses: An event that contains all of the possible outcomes and thus is known a priori to be certain to occur;
(more formally) the entire sample space (which by definition has measure 1 and probability 1); said sample space with the exclusion of, at most, a set of measure 0 (thus retaining measure 1).
the entire sample space (which by definition has measure 1 and probability 1); said sample space with the exclusion of, at most, a set of measure 0 (thus retaining measure 1).
qualifier: more formally
Forms:
form: certain events
tags: plural