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noun
An event that contains all of the possible outcomes and thus is known a priori to be certain to occur;
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, probability-theory, sciences
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noun
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).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: more formally
Topics: mathematics, probability-theory, sciences
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