Key Notes

Chapter-13
Probability
The salient features of the chapter are

The conditional probability of an event E, given the occurrence of the event F is given by

P ( E |F ) =

P(E F)
, P(F) 0
P(F)

0 P ( E | F ) 1,

P ( E | F

= 1 P (E | F )

P (( E F ) G ) = P ( E G ) + P ( F | G ) P

(( E F ) | G )

P ( E F ) = P (E) P ( E | F ), P (E) 0

P (E F ) = P ( F ) P (E | F ), P (F ) 0

P (E F ) = P (E) P (F )

P ( E | F ) = P (E), P (F ) 0
P ( F | E) = P (F ), P (E) 0

Theorem of total probability:

Let {E1, E2 , ..., En ) be a partition of a sample space and suppose that each of E1 , E2 , ..., En
has non zero probability. Let A be any event associated with S, then

P(A) = P(E1 )P(A | E1 ) + P(E 2 ) + P(A | E 2 ) + ........ + P(E n )P(A | E n )

Bayes' theorem: If E1 , E2 , ..., En are events which constitute a partition of sample space S,
i.e. E1 , E2 , ..., En are pairwise disjoint and E1 4, E2 4, ..., 4 En = S and A be any event with
non-zero probability, then, P ( Ei |A ) =

P(Ei ) P(A | Ei )
n

P(Ei ) P(A | Ei )
j1

A random variable is a real valued function whose domain is the sample space of a random
experiment.

The probability distribution of a random variable X is the system of numbers

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Key Notes
X

x1

x2

.....

xn

P(X) :

p1

p2

......

pn

pi > o, pi = 1, i = 1, 2,......, n
i =1

Where,

Let X be a random variable whose possible values x1, x2, x3 .... ..., xn occur with probabilities

p1, p2, p3 .... ..., pn respectively. The mean of X, denoted by is the number

x i pi . The mean
i =1

of a random variable X is also called the expectation of X, denoted by E (X).

Let X be a random variable whose possible values x1, x2, x3 .... ..., xn occur with probabilities

p(x1 ), p(x 2 ),......p(x n ) respectively. Let = E ( X ) be the mean of X. The variance of X,

n

denoted by Var (X) or 2x is defined as x 2 Var ( X ) = (x i ) 2 p(xi ) or

equivalently

i =1

2x

= E ( X ) . The non-negative number,

2

Va r ( X ) =

1=i

(x i )2 p(x i ) is called the

standard deviation of the random variable X.

( )

Var ( X ) = E X 2

E ( X )

Trials of a random experiment are called Bernoulli trials, if they satisfy the following
conditions:
(i)

There should be a finite number of trials.

(ii)

The trials should be independent.

(iii)

Each trial has exactly two outcomes: success or failure.

(iv)

The probability of success remains the same in each trial.

For Binomial distribution B(n, p), P(X=x) =n Cx q n x P x , x = 0, 1, ......, n(q = 1 p)

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