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1.1.Introduction
Unit 1 - Basic concepts of probability
1.1.IntroductionThe basic foundation of statistics is the probability theory which aims to systematize the laws of chance to discover the regularities in the pattern in which the events depending on chance repeat themselves. Probability had its beginning with the games of chance, such as the tossing of a coin, rolling of a die; drawing a card, etc., in the 17th century. It was only in the 19th century Gregory Mendel while studying the genetic laws in peas showed that it can be applied to biological investigations also. Since then it is being applied very successfully to various problems in biology.
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