Data Management Combinations and Permutations

What is Data Management combinations?

In mathematics, combination and permutation are two different ways of grouping elements of a set into subsets. In a combination, the elements of the subset can be listed in any order while in a permutation, the elements of the subset are listed in a specific order.

All data sets have a finite number of combinations as well as a finite number of permutations. This makes them useful for calculating probability for complex events. The more elements contained in a set, the greater the number of possible permutations and the smaller the probability that a specific permutation will occur.