Experiment and outcome

Summary

Experiment and outcome

• An experiment is any process which will result in precisely one out of a preidentified set of possible outcomes .

Sample space

• The set of possible outcomes is often denoted by $S$ and called the sample space of the experiment.

Example

• Tossing a dice is an experiment if we define the set of possible outcome to be $S={1,2,3,4,5,6}$ before we toss the dice and the outcome of the experiment to be the number on the upper surface of the dice .