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What is classical, empirical, and subjective probability?

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Empirical is observational probability, classical is equal chance for any outcome, subjective is an estimate or educated guess.

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classical - probability referring to cases containing elements that are equally likely to happen.

Example- your lottery ticket winning vs everyone else's.

empirical- probability of an event based on the results of an actual experiment conducted several times.

Example- the probability of a washing machine needing repairs is high based off of 6 years of data collected.

subjective- probability derived from an individual's personal judgment about whether a specific outcome is likely to occur.

Example- an analyst feels that a certain stock's probability of decreasing is low.

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