Harvard statistics 110, video 2 note(story proof & axioms)

start Harvard statistics, video 2


story proofs, axioms


7:14 2014-10-02
don't loose your common sense


7:14 2014-10-02
!!! NOTICE:


the naive definition assumes that you've


broken your problem into equally likely outcomes


7:26 2014-10-02
one of the most difficult & most important thing


in this course is try to get the habit of trying to 


recognize pattern & structure


7:39 2014-10-02
it's not a calculus thing, it's a thinking thing,


you have to think hard.


7:40 2014-10-02
equivalent: how many ways are there to put k indistinguishable


   particles into n distringuishable boxes?


7:42 2014-10-02
story proof: proof by interpretation


7:53 2014-10-02
choose who's in the club, then choose who's the president.


7:57 2014-10-02
non-naive definition: 


A probability sample consists of S & P


where S == Sample space, P is a function which


takes an event A which is a subset of S as input,


and gives P(A)∈[0,1]