probability : Idioms & Phrases

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Calculus of probabilities

  • the science that treats of the computation of the probabilities of events, or the application of numbers to chance.
Webster 1913

conditional probability

  • noun the probability that an event will occur given that one or more other events have occurred
    conditional probability.
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contingent probability

  • noun the probability that an event will occur given that one or more other events have occurred
    conditional probability.
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in all probability

  • adverb with considerable certainty; without much doubt
    belike; probably; likely; in all likelihood.
    • He is probably out of the country
    • in all likelihood we are headed for war
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joint probability

  • noun the probability of two events occurring together
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probability theorist

  • noun a mathematician who specializes in probability theory
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probability theory

  • noun the branch of applied mathematics that deals with probabilities
    probability theory.
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theory of probability

  • noun the branch of applied mathematics that deals with probabilities
    probability theory.
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