The Frequentist Intuition behind Assigning Probabilities

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An event is something that might or might not occur when some repeatable procedure is performed. A frequentist approach to probability entails assigning a probability to an event such that the relative frequency with which occurs approaches as the number of repetitions of the procedure grows.

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In this Demonstration, the procedure is the tossing of three fair dice. You can choose from a few events and watch how the relative frequency of their occurrence (blue plot) fluctuates about the theoretical probability assigned to them (red line).

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Contributed by: Chris Boucher (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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