The relative frequency definition of probability says: If an experiment is repeated, the probability of an event (a specified outcome of the experiment) is the relative frequency of occurrence of that ...

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Learn how prior probability informs economic theory and decision-making in Bayesian statistics. Understand its role before collecting new data.

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Editor’s note: Previous versions of the simulation were incorrectly calculating each team’s odds of reaching the conference finals and beyond. That error has been ...

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