conditional probability

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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conditional probability
Noun
  • As of Tuesday, a significant percentage of all deployed US naval assets globally are also now located in US Southern Command, the US military’s command responsible for operations in the region, according to a fleet tracker published by the United States Naval Institute’s news portal.
    Natasha Bertrand, CNN Money, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Businesses owned by Native Americans or people who identify as Middle Eastern or North African did not receive any city dollars during the study period, or at least not enough to register as a percentage of the total, Bawa said.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Fed meets again at the end of the month and markets are pricing in a nearly 97% probability of another 25 basis point cut, according to the CME FedWatch tool .
    Michelle Fox, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The probability of lightning strikes rises as a thunderstorm approaches and peaks when the storm is directly above.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Joining a Blue Jays rotation that appeared more built for the regular season slog, Bieber held playoff potential.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The researchers compared both configurations to test the vitamin’s catalytic performance and long-term potential.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Islamabad is now more likely to consider Delhi’s growing friendliness with the Taliban to harm Pakistan’s interests a real possibility, regardless of Delhi’s actual intentions.
    Happymon Jacob, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
  • But the possibility of a rookie second-rounder helping a hapless franchise to the bottom of the Play-In Tournament is too low stakes.
    Fred Katz, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025

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