Predictable or random?
Law of a phenomenon
Practical sheet REF: FIC1454 V1
Predictable or random?
Law of a phenomenon

Author : Laurent LEBLOND

Publication date: February 10, 2015 | Lire en français

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1. Predictable or random?

Laboratories are faced with two main types of phenomenon.

  • predictable phenomena (including systematic phenomena) ;

  • random phenomena.

1.1 Definition of foreseeable phenomena

A predictable phenomenon is one whose behavior is known. For each observation, its value can be "predicted".

Pedagogical example: a static die on a table. If the die is never rolled, its value is known at each observation; it is systematic, the die being, in this example, immobile.

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