Search results for "Probability" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
