Sentences with phrase «true black swan event»

The Great Storm of 1703 was indeed an extreme outlier — a true black swan event.

Not exact matches

In true Hollywood fashion, last night's New York Red Carpet movie premiere of Darren Aronofsky's «Black Swan» was a gala event attended by stars Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, VIncent Cassel, Barbara Hershey and Winona Ryder.

I agree that global warming itself shouldn't be regarded as a black swan, although if some of the more alarming sensitivity predictions were to be true with accompanying extreme weather events, then it might arguably be a black swan.

From my perspective a «black swan» event is an event which is fairly probable under the true distribution of the underlying data, but highly improbable if we assume a Gaussian distribution.