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The events {cancer patients} and {smokers} are statistically dependent. :'~Jote that this reasoning does not lead to the conclusion that there is a causal relationship between lung cancer and smoking. Both factors might result from a common cause (work habits. for example) that has not been considered in the experimental model. 38 Two trains, X and Y. M. The times of their arrival are independent. Train X stops for 5 minutes, and train Y stops for 4 minutes. (a) Find the probability p 1 that train X arrives before train Y.
We observe one and only one outcome. whatever we have agreed to consider as the outcome for that experiment. The set of all outcomes is modeled by the certain event:;. "Jl. 'i occurred at that particular trial. Thus at a single trial only one outcome is observed: however. many events occur. namely. all the 2·'· 1 subsets of ;f that contain the particular outcome ~. The remaining 2-"· 1 events do not occur. 15 We conduct a poll to determine whether a voter is Republican (r) or Democrat (d). In this case.
Thus in (2-7), ab is distinct from ba; the configuration aa does not appear. 5 As we see from (2-8). 0 = 10 X 9 = 90 If the ten objects are the numbers 0, I, . . • 9. then P~0 is the total number of two-digit numbers excluding 00, II, 22. . • 99. • - 26 CHAP. 2 FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS = N in (2-8), we obtain P~ = N(N - I) · · · 1 = N! • Corollary. Setting m This is the number of permutations of N objects (the phrase "taken N at a time" is omitted). 6 Here are the 3! = 3 x 2 permutations of the objects a.