| Fundamentals of Statistics contains material of various lectures and courses of H. Lohninger on statistics, data analysis and chemometrics......click here for more. |

Table of Contents Math Background Introduction to Probability Calculating with Sets |
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| See also: union, intersection, complement | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Calculating with SetsWhen combining two or more sets by union or intersection, the following rules
have to be applied:
A visualization of the distributive law:
Example:When we define an additional event C {number larger than 1} and calculate the union and intersection of all three events A, B and C, we find that the probability of the union equals 1 and the probability of the intersection is zero.
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