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abern

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Explain the relationship between a relative-frequency distribution and a probability distribution for any numerical population.

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What is the subjective approach to probability?



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Answer to Question 1

A relative frequency distribution indicates the decimal fraction that each class contains of the total number of pieces of data. Let one of the classes be defined as the random variable X. Then the probability of X will be the relative frequency of the class representing X.

Answer to Question 2

The degree to which one happens to believe that an event will or will not happen.



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