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1803383

Anonymous Sat Sep 25 22:53:42 2010 No.1803383 [Reply] [Original]

What is that sideways U supposed to mean in statistics?

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>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 25 22:55:42 2010 No.1803388 Is a subset of

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 25 22:56:42 2010 No.1803393 cant remember if that is a logical "and" or a logical "or." are you doing probability?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 25 22:57:42 2010 No.1803398 Yea, I'm trying to study for my Econometrics class, but we're doing a brief review on basic probability. I should've payed attention in Intro to Statistics, this is gonna be a shitty quarter :(

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 25 22:58:42 2010 No.1803406 It's C you dumbass.

>>	Adrian !wf/oOO.fjg Sat Sep 25 23:01:42 2010 No.1803418 >>1803388 you mean proper subset http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ProperSubset.html

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 25 23:04:42 2010 No.1803424 >>1803418 Not always. Sometimes general subset is represented as <span class="math">\cup[/spoiler] too. Really depends on the text.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 25 23:05:42 2010 No.1803426 >>1803424 shit wrong symbol. <span class="math">\subset[/spoiler]?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 25 23:07:42 2010 No.1803430 It means 'if B, then A'. It's a discrete maths thing.