👉 In probability theory and statistics, "overcount" refers to the phenomenon where an event occurs more than once in a sequence of independent trials. This can occur if the events are mutually exclusive (meaning they cannot both happen at the same time) or if there is no overlap between the events. For example, let's say you toss a coin 10 times and observe that it lands heads 5 times out of those 10 tosses. In this case, "overcounting"
