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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
2. How to Count
Authors : Michael O. Finkelstein, Bruce Levin
Published in: Statistics for Lawyers
Publisher: Springer New York
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Abstract
The key to elementary probability calculations is an ability to count outcomes of interest among a given set of possibilities called the sample space. Exhaustive enumeration of cases often is not feasible. There are, fortunately, systematic methods of counting that do not require actual enumeration. In this chapter we introduce these methods, giving some applications to fairly challenging probability problems, but defer to the next chapter the formal theory of probability.