Talk:jev

Czech
I have translated "event" as "jev", in probability theory, but that may be a bit misleading. In Grindstead, Snell: Introduction to Probability, event is a set of outcomes; set operations on events are possible. In Zvárová: Základy statistiky pro biomedicínské obory, however, "jev" seems to be a proposition; logical operations are applied to "jevy". In the Czech material, there is no analogue to the technical term "outcome", which in English is a member of the "sample space". There is however an "elementární jev", an analogue of "elementary event". It seems that the Czech model dispenses with outcomes, only speaking in terms of events. The Czech "jevy" are monadic predicates about the real outcomes of experiments such as rolling a die; the real outcomes are individuals and are innumerably many; each individual outcome of a roll of a die contains much more information than merely the number that occurs on the top of the die. No guarantee on this note, though. --Dan Polansky 11:59, 25 November 2009 (UTC)