Experiment

An experiment  is defined (Papoulis 1984, p. 30) as a mathematical object consisting of the following elements.

1. A set  (the probability space) of elements.

2. A Borel field  consisting of certain subsets of  called events.

3. A number  satisfying the probability axioms, called the probability, that is assigned to every event .

REFERENCES:

Papoulis, A. Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic Processes, 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984.