Sunday 25 March 2012

Independent

In probability, two events are said to be independent when the occurrence of one event does not make any effect on the other event. It means that any two related events that have no effect on each other. Here an event refers to any type of activity that is performed manually. In mathematical definition two events are independent if the outcome of one event does not make any influence in the outcome of second event. In the process of finding the probability of two independent events requires to multiply the probabilities of the two events. After obtaining the outcome, if needed then simplifies the final result.
Suppose the event of getting a Red heart in first attempt and the event of getting a black heart in second event are independent event. So, we can say that any two random variables are independent if the conditional probability distribution of either given the observed value of the other is the same as if the second event’s value had not been observed. The concept of independent event is most widely used in probability to give knowledge to the students of Grade VI. (know more about syllabus of cbse board, here)
In the form of standard definition independent events can be defined as:
Suppose we have two independent events x and y then they can be represented as
 P (x ∩ y) = P (x) . P (y),
In the above notation ‘x ∩ y’ can be defined as intersection of ‘x’ and ‘y’. It means that it is an event where both events ‘x’ and ‘y’ occur. In probability of independent events we can apply the multiplication rule that is given below:
Rule for probability of independent event:
If two events ‘x’ and ‘y’ is independent then probability of occurrence is:
   P (x and y) = P (x) . P (y),
In the next session we will discuss about Collect/organize/graph data. 

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