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Probability theory is a set of ideas and procedures which allows us to act rationally in situations where we have incomplete information
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Bongaarts, P. (2015). Probability Theory. In: Quantum Theory. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09561-5_22
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