Many experimental setting require probability computations of complex events. Such calculations may be carried out exactly, using theoretical models, or approximately, using estimation or simulations. There are many useful counting principles including permutations and combinations to compute the number of ways that certain arrangements of objects can be formed. This allows counting-based estimation of complex events' probabilities. There are two basic types of processes that we observe in nature - Discrete and Continuous.
We begin by discussing several important discrete random processes, emphasizing the different distributions, expectations, variances and applications. In the next chapter , we will discuss their continuous counterparts and other continuous distributions are discussed in a later chapter.
To simplify the calculations of probabilities, we will define the concept of a random variable which will allow us to study uniformly various processes with the same mathematical and computational techniques. The expectation and the variance for any discrete random variable or process are important measures of Centrality and Dispersion.
This section also presents the definitions of some common population- or sample-based moments. The Bernoulli and Binomial processes provide the simplest models for discrete random experiments. Multinomial processes extend the Binomial experiments for the situation of multiple possible outcomes.
The Geometric, Hypergeometric, Negative Binomial, and Negative Multinomial distributions provide computational models for calculating probabilities for a large number of experiment and random variables. This section presents the theoretical foundations and the applications of each of these discrete distributions.
The Poisson distribution models many different discrete processes where the probability of the observed phenomenon is constant in time or space. Poisson distribution may be used as an approximation to the Binomial distribution. The Normal Distribution is perhaps the most important model for studying quantitative phenomena in the natural and behavioral sciences - this is due to the Central Limit Theorem. Many numerical measurements e.
Other commonly used continuous distributions are discussed in a later chapter. The Standard Normal Distribution is the simplest version zero-mean, unit-standard-deviation of the General Normal Distribution. Yet, it is perhaps the most frequently used version because many tables and computational resources are explicitly available for calculating probabilities. In practice, the mechanisms underlying natural phenomena may be unknown, yet the use of the normal model can be theoretically justified in many situations to compute critical and probability values for various processes.
In addition to being able to compute probability p values, we often need to estimate the critical values of the Normal Distribution for a given p-value. The multivariate normal distribution also known as multivariate Gaussian distribution is a generalization of the univariate one-dimensional normal distribution to higher dimensions 2D, 3D, etc. The multivariate normal distribution is useful in studies of correlated real-valued random variables. In this chapter, we will explore the relationships between different distributions.
This knowledge will help us to compute difficult probabilities using reasonable approximations and identify appropriate probability models, graphical and statistical analysis tools for data interpretation. The complete list of all SOCR Distributions is available here and the Probability Distributome project provides an interactive graphical interface for exploring the relations between different distributions.
The exploration of the relations between different distributions begins with the study of the sampling distribution of the sample average. This will demonstrate the universally important role of normal distribution. Suppose the relative frequency of occurrence of one event whose probability to be observed at each experiment is p.
If we repeat the same experiment over and over, the ratio of the observed frequency of that event to the total number of repetitions converges towards p as the number of experiments increases. Why is that and why is this important? Normal Distribution provides a valuable approximation to Binomial when the sample sizes are large and the probability of successes and failures is not close to zero.
Poisson provides an approximation to Binomial Distribution when the sample sizes are large and the probability of successes or failures is close to zero. Binomial Distribution is much simpler to compute, compared to Hypergeometric, and can be used as an approximation when the population sizes are large relative to the sample size and the probability of successes is not close to zero.
Estimation of population parameters is critical in many applications. Estimation is most frequently carried in terms of point-estimates or interval range estimates for population parameters that are of interest. There are many ways to obtain point value estimates of various population parameters of interest, using observed data from the specific process we study.
The method of moments and the maximum likelihood estimation are among the most popular ones frequently used in practice. Next, we discuss point and interval estimates when the sample-sizes are small. Naturally, the point estimates are less precise and the interval estimates produce wider intervals, compared to the case of large-samples.
The Student's T-Distribution arises in the problem of estimating the mean of a normally distributed population when the sample size is small and the population variance is unknown. Normal Distribution is an appropriate model for proportions, when the sample size is large enough. In this section, we demonstrate how to obtain point and interval estimates for population proportion. In many processes and experiments, controlling the amount of variance is of critical importance.
Thus the ability to assess variation, using point and interval estimates, facilitates our ability to make inference, revise manufacturing protocols, improve clinical trials, etc.
Hypothesis Testing is a statistical technique for decision making regarding populations or processes based on experimental data. It quantitatively answers the possibility that chance alone might be responsible for the observed discrepancies between a theoretical model and the empirical observations. As we already saw how to construct point and interval estimates for the population mean in the large sample case, we now show how to do hypothesis testing in the same situation.
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