conditional probability

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as in percentage

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Recent Examples of conditional probability His lasting contribution came posthumously, in a Royal Society paper on conditional probability. — Siddhartha Mukherjee, New Yorker, 16 June 2025 Fraud Detection As mentioned earlier, conditional probability allows firms to update risk assessments in real-time. — Christer Holloman, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025 Thus was born, in these villages, the idea of conditional probabilities and, with it, the practice of conditional love. — Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 11 July 2024 The prosecutor’s fallacy emerges constantly in problems of conditional probability, leading us sirenlike towards precisely the wrong conclusions—and undetected, sends innocent people to jail. — David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2023 The Goldman team sees a 30% probability of entering a recession over the next year, up from 15% previously, and a 25% conditional probability of entering a recession in the second year if one is avoided in the first. — Enda Curran, Fortune, 21 June 2022 Each term in the Drake equation sets the conditional probability of the term that comes after. — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2021 To calculate the probability of the outcome resulting from any particular branch (a conditional probability), the probabilities of the sequence of events are multiplied. — New York Times, 13 May 2020
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  1. percentage
  2. probability
  3. potential
  4. possibility
Noun
  • But only a tiny percentage of European pension fund assets are currently invested in venture capital.
    — Claas Mertens, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Now, Democrats have a roughly 20-percentage-point advantage on both issues.
    — Terry Tang, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
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  • Simulations accounting for a 4–6-kilometer-wide grounding zone suggest a 60-percent probability that the glacier will become unpinned from the Mouginot Ridge by the end of the century.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Farther east, including the I-35 corridor and the metroplex, rain chances will generally range from 30–50%, with lower probabilities toward our southeastern counties.
    — Michael Autovino, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of probability
Noun
  • The debate about how to control AI and limit its potential for damage is healthy and necessary.
    — David Miliband, Time, 19 Oct. 2026
  • While each involves risk and the potential for reward, increasingly, they’re being delivered through a remarkably similar digital experience.
    — Aneri Jambusaria, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of potential
Noun
  • More than a splash of color Perhaps the more interesting possibility lies beyond multi-color printing altogether.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Major cringe, on the other hand, navigates the aesthetic affect critically and formally to induce it—viscerally exploiting its possibilities.
    — Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of possibility

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