Sentences with phrase «probability of a particular event»

But there is uncertainty associated with all the forecasts and some forecasters are trying to estimate the extent of that uncertainty, which in turn can be used to calculate probabilities of particular events (hung parliament, largest party, etc..)

«The more useful question for real - world decisions is: «Is the probability of a particular event statistically different now compared with a climate without human influence?»»

Not exact matches

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A nomogram is a graphic depiction of models that can be utilized to estimate the numeric probability of death, disease progression, or other events for a particular patient.

This Concept introduces the student to complements, in particular, finding the probability of events by using the complement rule

Like the risk of an accident in a particular new class of power station, such a probability for a single future event can not be calculated objectively; it is an expression of a subjective assessment of the likelihood based on limited available knowledge.

Her talk focused in the concept of forecast reliability, defined mathematically as the statistical correspondence between the forecast probability and the observed frequency of an event, given a particular event of interest.

The appropriate null hypothesis to use in such studies is that human influence has not increased the probability of occurrence of a particular weather event unless the evidence suggests otherwise.

This is different from insurance and genetics where there are lots of data available for testing the probabilities of well - described events such as higher accident rates in a stratum, or higher disease rates with particular alleles.

The executive summary is that there is no way to capture the concept of «ignorance» in Bayesian probability, in that any probability distribution represents a precise and specific set of probabilities assigned to particular events.

To asses the risk associated with a particular event we must know first of all the probability of that event occurring (i.e. how likely is it that the Arctic will be seasonally ice free by 2020) and calculate a measure of the harm / hazard if this event were it to occur (i.e. a rapid acceleration of climate change).

Frustration acted as a general risk factor predicting severity of maladjustment; low Effortful Control and Fear acted as dimension - specific risk factors that predicted a particular type of psychopathology; whereas Shyness, High - Intensity Pleasure, and Affiliation acted as direction markers that steered the conditional probability of internalizing versus externalizing problems, in the event of maladjustment.