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PROBABILITY THEORY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of applied mathematics that deals with probabilities
Synonyms:
probability theory; theory of probability
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("probability theory" is a kind of...):
applied math; applied mathematics (the branches of mathematics that are involved in the study of the physical or biological or sociological world)
Meronyms (parts of "probability theory"):
binomial theorem (a theorem giving the expansion of a binomial raised to a given power)
Domain category:
statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)
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