Timeline for In math/stats terminology, $1/p$ is the reciprocal of $p$. So what is $1-p$ called, if anything?
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| Jun 5, 2013 at 23:02 | comment | added | PLL | I’ve come across a few other settings in which $1-p$ was called the complement of $p$; notably in arithmetic modulo 2 (and more generally, linear algebra over $\mathbb{Z}/(2)$, but also I think some other settings, though I can’t remember them now. | |
| Jun 5, 2013 at 21:30 | vote | accept | Lucas Fortini | ||
| Jun 5, 2013 at 20:49 | comment | added | Ellie | I agree. Also, I'd add that if p is the probability of an event, then it's also common to denote 1-p as q. That might help simplify describing the function. | |
| Jun 5, 2013 at 20:39 | history | edited | Jake Westfall | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 5, 2013 at 20:32 | history | answered | Jake Westfall | CC BY-SA 3.0 |