Sentences with phrase «equal probability»

For this, properly constructed samples using equal probability of selection methods are required which are sufficiently large to investigate the issues raised in this paper.

Over the last decade, record highs were more than twice as common as record lows, whereas half a century ago there was a roughly equal probability of experiencing either of these.

That they are uncertain cuts both ways; things might not turn out as badly as the models now suggest, but with equal probability, they could turn out worse.

At present all climate influenced human infrastructure (reservoirs, irrigation, water supply, sea walls, etc) is designed by analysing the past statistically and assuming it will occur with equal probability in the future.

Assets paid − 24, − 16, 4 or 36 units, called «francs» with equal probability at the end of every period, plus a maturity value of 360 francs at the end of period 15.

Meteorites land everywhere with almost equal probability — it's the Antarctic conditions that make the difference.

Early on in a search, a robot may know very little about where a scent is coming from — every direction in which it could travel has a relatively equal probability of leading to the source.

Tallbloke: It sounds as though you've confused the idea of «probability» with the idea of «probability density» for the IPCC isn't saying that a sensitivity of 18.5 C is as probable as a sensitivity of 1 C but rather that the two sensitivities have equal probability densities.

The standard multilevel modeling approach can properly estimate parameters and standard errors for clustered data that have resulted from equal probability sampling [2].

Assign equal probability to each of these classrooms, choose one at random, and denote it by.

If a model ensemble was perfect such that the true observed climatic variable can be regarded as indistinguishable from a sample of the model ensemble, then the rank of each observation lies with equal probability anywhere in the model ensemble, and thus the rank histogram should have a uniform distribution (subject to sampling noise).

The preferred sampling method was the random selection of classes with equal probabilities from comprehensive lists, followed by completion of the self - administrated survey questionnaire by all of the pupils from the selected classes who were present on the day of the data collection.

Based on your logic, there is equal probability of pink unicorns, teapots orbiting the sun and god (s).

To be perfectly practical if cazorla was in any of last 3 games there was equal probability of us winning or losing.

For example, MLB now has 30 teams, and if one assumes that in any year each team has an equal probability — 3.3 % — of winning the championship, then simple binomial statistics predict that the probability that a particular team — say, the San Diego Padres in California — will fail to win a championship for 107 years in a row is 2.67 %.

Note that in the single neuron case, a particular firing rate might be associated with stimuli either on the left or right side of the tuning curve with equal probability.

Assign equal probabilities to all of the classrooms in that have teachers different from that of classroom.

Assign equal probability to each of these classrooms, choose one at random, and denote it by A. Assign equal probability to each of the other classrooms that have the same teacher as A. Choose one at random and denote it by B. Assign equal probabilities to all of the classrooms that have teachers different from that of classroom A. Choose one at random and denote it by C.

Assign equal probability to each of the other classrooms in that have the same teacher as.

As journalist Louis Menand put it, «The experts performed worse than they would have if they had simply assigned an equal probability to all three outcomes... Human beings who spend their lives studying the state of the world, in other words, are poorer forecasters than dart - throwing monkeys.»

I used Excel to produce wins and losses with equal probability (50 %).

I am not saying that I reverse - engineered it because in econometrics there may be many fits with equal probability that explain the dependent variable well.

Each month of these annual returns is selected at random (with an equal probability) with replacements.

An equal probability of selection method (EPSEM) phone list of residential landline telephone numbers for the survey was purchased from a private company.4 Three attempts were made at each number over successive nights.

To me, those statements show an intention for the uniform prior to represent ignorance, not a justified belief that the sample was in fact generated by a process that resulted in it having equal probability of it having originated in any calendar year and / or falling within a particular date range.