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Trial

In statistics, a trial is a single measurable random event, such as the flipping of a Coin, the generation of a Random Number, the dropping of a ball down the apex of a triangular lattice and having it fall into a single bin at the bottom, etc.

See also Bernoulli Trial, Lexis Trials, Poisson Trials




© 1996-9 Eric W. Weisstein
1999-05-26