Independent Events in a Discrete Uniform Probability Space

Authors
Eisenberg, Bennett Ghosh, B. K.
Citation
Eisenberg, Bennett et K. Ghosh, B., Independent Events in a Discrete Uniform Probability Space, American statistician , 41(1), 1987, pp. 52-56
Journal title
American statistician → ACNP
ISSN journal
00031305
Volume
41
Issue
1
Year of publication
1987
Pages
52 - 56
Database
ACNP
SICI code
Abstract
Consider a random experiment with N equally likely outcomes.This article derives conditions in terms of the prime factorization of N for the existence of classes of pairwise independent and mutually independent events. Some examples are given to elucidate the conditions.