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- ===Probability=== * In probability calculations, the nine is a logarithmic measure of ...22 KB (2,900 words) - 06:48, 13 June 2023
- to the differential calculus, probability, and other fields of mathematics ... In 1819, Laplace published a popular account of his work on probability ...24 KB (3,889 words) - 05:17, 24 November 2022
- the estimate, the error bound, and the probability that the actual magnitude ... . This can be done with calibrated probability assessment. ...18 KB (2,732 words) - 14:42, 5 December 2023
- to Medical Statistics. Wiley Series in Probability and Mathematical Statistics ... Rules of Thumb. Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. New York: ...10 KB (1,517 words) - 00:43, 5 December 2023
- revealed religion through a doctrine of probability; since there was no conclusive ... be untrue, we must always allow for the probability that it was true. ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 17:47, 6 May 2024
- but instead is characterized by a probability distribution, and the ... or potentials. For example, the pattern (probability distribution) produced ...26 KB (4,014 words) - 01:33, 3 May 2023
- Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (February 20, 1844 – September 5, 1906) was an Austrian physicist famous for his application of probability theory ...19 KB (2,826 words) - 02:38, 5 November 2022
- Ampere published his first paper on probability theory, demonstrating ... Ampere's work Memoir on Probability attracted the attention of ...10 KB (1,522 words) - 17:59, 27 July 2023
- and on the philosophical foundations of probability and induction (Carnap ... thermodynamics and on the foundations of probability and induction, were published ...27 KB (4,028 words) - 21:04, 21 December 2022
- of the articles of the Encyclopédie, that the probability of a coin landing heads increased for every time that it came up tails. In gambling, the ...12 KB (1,720 words) - 17:39, 2 April 2024
- causes B if As occurrence increases the probability of B. This is sometimes ... of a cause preceding and increasing the probability of the effect. One advantage ...23 KB (3,623 words) - 16:19, 3 December 2023
- Edgeworth turned his interest to statistics and probability theory ... theory. He wrote the article on probability in the 1911 edition of ...20 KB (3,082 words) - 06:16, 23 January 2023
- experiences. He developed a theory of probability which he used to evaluate ... perception. He also developed the use of probability ratios to determine the ...30 KB (4,510 words) - 09:44, 11 March 2023
- refer to an axiom, a rule of inference, or, in probability theory, a probability distribution. * Principle. Examples include Harnack's principle ...16 KB (2,524 words) - 18:26, 30 April 2023
- epistemology, value theory, ethics, probability theory and aesthetics ... epistemology, value theory, ethics, probability theory and aesthetics ...14 KB (1,974 words) - 06:46, 20 July 2023
- the shape of an orbital indicates the probability of locating the electron ... be drawn so that the electron has a high probability to be found anywhere within ...33 KB (5,193 words) - 01:09, 18 November 2022
- which an example is shown to exist by methods of probability theory—not an argument that a theorem is 'probably' true. The latter type of ...9 KB (1,489 words) - 23:56, 1 December 2022
- of Berlin with a dissertation on probability theory. The same year ... with penicillin Pj, and the statistical probability p of recovery R where ...24 KB (3,610 words) - 19:18, 26 November 2023
- a set of variables together with a joint probability distribution with explicit ... During the 1990s and 2000s AI became very influenced by probability ...15 KB (2,061 words) - 17:40, 16 August 2023
- When a gamma ray passes through matter, the probability for absorption ... that of the incident gamma photon. The probability of Compton scatter decreases ...16 KB (2,549 words) - 04:20, 18 April 2024
- when β and ββ decays are both allowed, the probability of β decay is (usually) much higher, preventing investigations of very rare ββ decays ...10 KB (1,458 words) - 17:45, 29 September 2023
- seismic hazards. Such forecasts estimate the probability of an earthquake of a particular magnitude affecting a particular location within a certain ...9 KB (1,301 words) - 17:46, 25 January 2023
- do so, Huygens wrote the first book on probability theory, which he published ... 1657] Christiaan Huygens' book on probability theory. An English translation ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 17:57, 10 December 2023
- Keynes published his Treatise on Probability in 1921, a notable contribution ... *Keynes, John M. [1921] 2004. A Treatise on Probability. New York: ...21 KB (3,193 words) - 02:29, 2 May 2024
- who favor the early date usually admit the probability of interpolations…. Those who favor a later date usually admit the probability that the ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 11:01, 16 August 2023
- with Pierre de Fermat from 1654 on probability theory, strongly influencing ... gamblers (as evidenced by his work on probability). For an exciting while ...29 KB (4,620 words) - 18:12, 31 October 2023
- In this theory, expectancy (perceived probability of success), instrumentality ... want to feel that there is a substantial probability that they will succeed ...18 KB (2,702 words) - 17:02, 10 November 2022
- photon. Rather, they are defined as a probability to measure a certain polarization ... experiment lands on the screen with a probability distribution given by ...34 KB (4,943 words) - 20:26, 27 September 2023
- two textbooks, Principles of the Theory of Probability and The Logic of Measurement. In 1958, he published, with James R. Newman, Gödel's proof ...9 KB (1,352 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- relies heavily on statistics, probability theory and reliability ... on statistics, queuing theory and probability theory for its tools and ...28 KB (3,868 words) - 00:58, 21 April 2023
- specialist analyses of reasoning such as probability, correct reasoning, and ... may use mathematical models of probability. For the most part our discussion ...31 KB (4,895 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- concept and supposed problem of truth; probability; the question what is ... Metaphysics and Common Sense (1969); Probability and Evidence (1972); The ...30 KB (4,587 words) - 06:50, 13 June 2023
- of the prime contractors, discovered that the probability of failure for various components were easily constructed from the Boolean expressions for ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 20:39, 17 April 2023
- dominance. He famously showed that the probability of a mutation increasing ... word variance was first introduced into probability theory and statistics. ...23 KB (3,500 words) - 21:28, 15 August 2022
- Adams believed in both the possibility and the probability of humankind living in harmony and balance with its environment." Adams himself described ...9 KB (1,266 words) - 05:14, 31 July 2023
- based on induction, pragmatism, and probability theory have become more ... . Model Comparison and Robustness. Probability Theory: The Logic of Science. ...19 KB (2,872 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- a halo of gluons as dictated by the quantum probability wavefunction of the color interaction. A gluon is similar to a photon of light, except ...10 KB (1,600 words) - 08:20, 2 December 2022
- The speed of an object is the rate of motion of the object, or the rate at which the object changes its position. It is usually expressed as ...10 KB (1,597 words) - 19:13, 7 February 2023
- from a traditional formal syntax by taking some probability distribution over the production rules that is estimated from empirical data about actual ...11 KB (1,479 words) - 01:58, 27 February 2023
- orbitals shown as cross-sections with color-coded probability density]] |- !align="center" bgcolor=gray|Classification |- ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 15:57, 13 February 2024
- play, though the possibility, even the probability, that it was is obvious. Morley was highly placed by the mid-1590s and would have had easy ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 21:24, 30 April 2023
- The probability of species extinctions is high without intensive conservation efforts. Relatively extensive but generally unprotected blocks ...10 KB (1,472 words) - 06:06, 21 August 2023
- that enters the window has a very low probability of leaving without being ... it led to the development of quantum probability distributions, called ...23 KB (3,522 words) - 18:09, 31 October 2023
- that can be used to describe the probability density of a particle. Quantum mechanics also describes particle properties that other waves (such ...13 KB (2,010 words) - 23:20, 3 May 2023
- of the reinforcing event, the probability of the occurrence of the operant is increased. For example, if an operant is defined as bar pressing ...20 KB (3,039 words) - 05:20, 26 August 2023
- LTI systems. Random signals and noise: Probability, random variables, probability ... receivers, bandwidth consideration and probability of error calculations ...28 KB (3,902 words) - 16:01, 13 February 2024
- for risk arbitrage. The risk lies in the probability that the acquisition might ... "pairs." Typically, high-probability pairs are stocks in the ...24 KB (3,749 words) - 21:31, 11 August 2023
- with a degenerative illness, which in all probability was Alzheimer's disease. Barbara Hess, Willem de Kooning 1904-1997: Content as a Glimpse ...10 KB (1,460 words) - 15:38, 6 May 2023
- in a luminous manner the general theory of probability, and the relation between probability and induction; and his knowledge of the various natural ...23 KB (3,455 words) - 10:52, 12 May 2023
- point particles in potential wells, or else probability waves as in the "optical model," frictionlessly orbiting at high speed in potential wells. ...13 KB (1,903 words) - 06:57, 21 August 2023
- to teach as a Privatdozent, giving courses on probability and geometry. He studied for a while with Dirichlet, and they became close friends. Because ...11 KB (1,615 words) - 20:14, 8 December 2022
- This led to a great deal of work on induction, probability, and "confirmation," (which combined verification and falsification; see below). ...13 KB (1,922 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- An atom (Greek άτομον from ά: non and τομον: divisible) is a submicroscopic structure found in all ordinary matter. Originally the ...13 KB (2,062 words) - 06:25, 21 August 2023
- strong to say, that there will be a constant probability of seeing the station filled by characters pre-eminent for ability and virtue. ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 17:11, 8 October 2023
- of a reserve chute comes from the probability of an unlikely main malfunction being multiplied by the even less likely probability of a reserve ...30 KB (4,644 words) - 07:42, 18 November 2022
- a grasping motion, then in all probability the sensation of contacting a doorknob should follow." Of course, this statement itself contains ...13 KB (2,023 words) - 02:56, 24 November 2022
- near the end of a game where there is no probability for any other play to score points. ==Biblical source== [[Image:Annunciation.jpg|thumb|The ...12 KB (1,964 words) - 16:45, 21 January 2024
- Thermal neutrons have a far higher probability of fissioning uranium ... with plutonium 239), due to the lower probability of fissioning U-235, and ...45 KB (6,704 words) - 00:40, 17 November 2022
- thirteen years. It may be conjectured with great probability that the ten years date from 1579, when Tylney was appointed master of the revels with a ...11 KB (1,875 words) - 06:20, 3 August 2022
- in 1888. His statistical study of the probability of extinction of surnames ... 1893, and 1895) Galton estimated the probability of two persons having ...23 KB (3,472 words) - 04:50, 9 April 2024
- include the simplicity, the prior probability, or the explanatory power of the explanation. A proof theoretical abduction method for first order ...14 KB (2,177 words) - 04:43, 14 June 2023
- Essay on the Application of Analysis to the Probability of Majority Decisions, one of his most important works. In this, he explores the "Condorcet ...12 KB (1,721 words) - 08:34, 10 March 2023
- that had the highest possible degree of probability. The term "eclectics" comes from the Greek eklektikos: “choosing the best.” ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 18:01, 12 February 2024
- would establish the inherent probability of the existence of objects ... has been carried on regarding the probability of their having preserved ...24 KB (3,815 words) - 05:56, 25 August 2020
- than simply as an operation of the laws of probability. Moreover, while tragic events occur to a lesser or greater extent in all families, they make ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 19:16, 16 December 2022
- that an alpha particle has a tiny (but non-zero) probability of "tunneling" through the energy barrier and escaping from the nucleus. ...13 KB (1,992 words) - 08:22, 23 July 2023
- high amounts of mercury, indicating a high probability that he was poisoned. Modern suspicion falls on his advisors Belsky and Boris Godunov, who ...11 KB (1,776 words) - 06:37, 11 March 2024
- set theory, measure theory, ergodic theory, probability, representation theory, and differential geometry. ==Arithmetic== The Peano axioms are ...16 KB (2,424 words) - 07:20, 23 August 2023
- Study of 2 Esdras is complicated by the probability that its early chapters—found only in Latin manuscripts but in not Greek ones—appear ...13 KB (2,222 words) - 06:43, 13 June 2023
- He also introduced statistical arguments and probability into his calculations, something that had not been done by his predecessors. Clausius took into ...13 KB (1,927 words) - 21:04, 21 December 2022
- a survey questionnaire to a carefully selected probability sample. By contrast, those sociologists, especially ethnographers, who are more interested ...28 KB (3,873 words) - 15:03, 27 April 2023
- his real calling. He published several papers in probability theory, beginning teaching at the University of Oslo in 1925, and, in 1926, gaining his Ph ...13 KB (1,910 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- Romans and renamed Caesarea Philippi. In all probability he spoke both Greek and Aramaic, like almost all of his contemporaries in that area, and was ...13 KB (2,095 words) - 08:48, 12 May 2024
- of UV radiation have a much greater probability of DNA damage than others. Fortunately, where DNA is easily damaged, such as by wavelengths shorter ...14 KB (2,217 words) - 06:05, 18 November 2022
- small or restricted population, and extinction probability analysis. The Critically Endangered Category species may also be further tagged as Possibly ...17 KB (2,530 words) - 20:34, 7 April 2024
- made with Regulus is, therefore, due in all probability to the desire to date the foundation of the church at St. Andrews as early as possible. ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- . This transformation involves quantum probability, so it is impossible to ... If N is the number of atoms, then the probability of decay (– dN/N) is ...30 KB (4,559 words) - 22:46, 7 December 2022
- teaching position, and in order to increase the probability of obtaining a permanent appointment in the Church of Scotland, he took up residence in Edinburgh ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 23:44, 12 February 2024
- electron orbiting a hydrogen atom has the probability, albeit small, that it could be anywhere else in the universe at any given moment). ...18 KB (2,400 words) - 16:06, 13 February 2024
- likely to be arrested by the police. The probability of being suspended from ... at the time—that increases the probability of contracting an STD ...26 KB (3,963 words) - 10:13, 26 January 2023
- smoke detectors had a 19.8 percent probability of failure while optical smoke detectors have a 3.99 percent failure rate. Skip Walker, [http://www ...15 KB (2,419 words) - 14:59, 27 April 2023
- * The concept of "almost" impossible in probability. More generally, the concept of almost nowhere in measure theory. For instance: ...30 KB (4,810 words) - 06:25, 13 June 2023
- In the model, intention affects the quantum probability that neurotransmitters will be released across a particular synapse in the brain. Eccles ...14 KB (2,183 words) - 17:05, 5 April 2024
- #039;s "ghost" particles to conserve probability. ... method of attempting to calculate the probability of failure of every individual ...54 KB (8,060 words) - 20:15, 8 December 2022
- the evidence available today the balance of probability favors the view that..." (V. Gordon Childe, Man Makes Himself, 1936). ...16 KB (2,254 words) - 16:10, 15 October 2020
- analysis of financial markets, electronics, probability theory, statistics, biology, medical imaging (CAT scans and ultrasound), pharmacy, chemistry, ...19 KB (2,702 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- probably can allow only one or two low probability links. This finding would ... argue for a higher number of low probability links, given the size ...36 KB (5,492 words) - 06:15, 31 July 2023
- likely cladogram based on a specific probability model of changes. ... * Aldous, D. 1996. Probability distributions on cladograms. In D. ...33 KB (4,767 words) - 22:30, 10 December 2023
- the bosons which obey Bose-Einstein probability statistics, and the fermions ... Heisenberg who had debated quantum probability with Bohr and Einstein ...63 KB (8,940 words) - 05:00, 17 June 2023
- Statistik und Wahrheit. 1928.Probability, Statistics, and Truth ... *Ernest Nagel, Principles of the theory of probability, 1939, vol.1 n.6 ...34 KB (4,936 words) - 20:14, 3 May 2023
- simplify the emergence of traits to mathematical probability. A large portion of Mendel's findings can be traced to his choice to start his experiments ...16 KB (2,499 words) - 19:37, 5 January 2024
- equations and also including probability and statistics, intermediate coursework in mechanical engineering, computer science, and sometimes electrical ...18 KB (2,585 words) - 22:36, 5 February 2023
- * The Probability of the Speedy and Final Destruction of the Pope (1718) * Tetradymus (1720) (translated into English language|English in 1751) ...15 KB (2,286 words) - 07:58, 3 August 2022
- An Analogy is a relation of similarity between two or more things, so that an inference (reasoning from premise to conclusion) is drawn on the ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 18:56, 26 July 2023
- is used when people estimate the probability of an outcome based on ... according to the bystander effect, the probability of receiving help in an ...46 KB (6,640 words) - 21:45, 30 January 2023
- theory" that would assign a probability rating for a hypothesis on the basis of some body of evidence, stated as P(h,e), where the probability ...41 KB (6,380 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- pain in the brain has a sufficiently high probability of being fatal and that development of nociceptive tissue would therefore have little to no ...18 KB (2,786 words) - 10:58, 11 March 2023
- not be used because they can increase the probability of developing Reye's syndrome. Antibiotics are ineffective since it is viral in nature ...16 KB (2,365 words) - 15:24, 10 December 2023
- proposed management team, which enhance the probability that the business will succeed. Business plans are also used internally by companies to ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 18:51, 22 November 2023
- There must be a high Probability of Success. Arms may not be used in a futile cause or in a case where disproportionate measures are required ...18 KB (2,937 words) - 06:46, 28 February 2023
