AI engineering glossary · Probability
What is partition?
Partition: A division of the sample space into events that are mutually exclusive and together exhaustive, so each outcome belongs to exactly one piece. Partitions are the basis of the law of total probability.
Partition: an example
Splitting customers by city tier into Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 is a partition: every customer is in exactly one group.
Related terms
More Probability terms
- Percentile
- Permutation
- Poisson distribution
- Poisson process
- Population
- Posterior probability
- Prior probability
- Probability
Where you learn it
Partition is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.