Search results for "Probability" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
