APA Dictionary of Psychology

sample space

Updated on 04/19/2018
the collection of all possible outcomes of an experiment of chance. For example, for a toss of a single coin, the sample space is heads and tails, whereas for a toss of two coins, the sample space is heads–heads, heads–tails, tails–tails, and tails–heads.
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