If you roll a die 38 times and 12 of the rolls result in a "5," what empirical probability was observed for the event "5"?
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The empirical probability, which is "what you measured by experiment" is 12/38 = 6/19, with 38 tosses.
If you had rolled the die thousands of times, you should have approached a probability of 1/6, if the die was not "loaded".
It is not unusual to get different empirical values tfrom the true probability, when there are relatively few samples.
If you had rolled the die thousands of times, you should have approached a probability of 1/6, if the die was not "loaded".
It is not unusual to get different empirical values tfrom the true probability, when there are relatively few samples.
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