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Diagram to represent a probability space in probability theory

Tree diagram for events $A {\displaystyle A}$ and $B {\displaystyle B}$ .

Tree diagram for events $A {\displaystyle A}$ and $B {\displaystyle B}$ .

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Inprobability theory, atree diagram may be used to represent aprobability space.

A tree diagram may represent a series ofindependent events (such as a set of coin flips) orconditional probabilities (such as drawing cards from a deck, without replacing the cards).^[1] Each node on the diagram represents anevent and is associated with the probability of that event. The root node represents the certain event and therefore has probability 1. Each set of sibling nodes represents an exclusive and exhaustive partition of the parent event.

The probability associated with a node is the chance of that event occurring after the parent event occurs. The probability that the series of events leading to a particular node will occur is equal to the product of that node and its parents' probabilities.

Notes

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^"Tree Diagrams".BBC GCSE Bitesize. BBC. p. 1,3. Retrieved25 October 2013.

References

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Charles Henry Brase, Corrinne Pellillo Brase:Understanding Basic Statistics. Cengage Learning, 2012,ISBN 9781133713890, pp. 205–208 (online copy at Google)