tail event

== English == === Etymology === From tail +‎ event. === Noun === tail event (plural tail events) (probability) an event associated with a given infinite sequence Y = { y k | k ≥ k 0 } {\displaystyle Y=\{y_{k}|k\geq k_{0}\}} that is determined by any subsequence of the form Y n = { y k | k ≥ n } , n ≥ k 0 {\displaystyle Y_{n}=\{y_{k}|k\geq n\},n\geq k_{0}} (a "tail" of that sequence) a low-probability event an event that initiates an activity ==== See also ==== (tail of sequence): Kolmogorov's zero-one law === Anagrams === ventilate