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The probability of the occurrence of an event is indicated by a number ranging from 0 to 1. An event whose probability of occurrence is 0 is certain not to occur, whereas an event whose probability is 1 is certain to occur.
The theory of probability is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus.
Pierre Simon De Le Place Theori Analytique des Probabilites (1812–1820)
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Wassertheil-Smoller, S. (1995). A Little Bit of Probability. In: Biostatistics and Epidemiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2424-0_2
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