Sentence examples for a real probability from inspiring English sources

Already, there is a real probability that individuals planning terrorist activities are using channels of communication that will not show up in the databases of service providers.

"There is a real probability that in the future, this country will get hit with a destructive attack, and we need to be ready for it," General Alexander said in a roundtable with reporters at the National Cryptologic Museum here at Fort Meade in advance of his Congressional testimony on Thursday morning.

This is the reason why the WDF can not be regarded as a real probability density but a 'quasiprobability density'.

"There's a real probability we won't have a debate.

Secondly, to ensure that the posterior distribution was a real probability distribution, we constrained the parameter space, i.e. we set maximum values for the priors of the parameters.

Allan Parachini, a consultant hired to help the museum evaluate its choices, said that while the museum had struggled in the past, "what is different this time is there is a real chance, a high probability that it has turned the corner".

Since such an event is unique, Knight argued, it is not possible to compare it with enough similar events in the past to "form a basis for any inference of value about any real probability".

These were essentially put options, with limited upside and a low but real probability of catastrophic losses.Another factor in the build-up of excessive risk was what Andy Haldane, head of financial stability at the Bank of England, has described as "disaster myopia".

Because of the sheer number of assessed interventions, it was practicable only to show graphically probabilistic uncertainty estimates for interventions that are less costly or more effective than other less efficient interventions, thereby omitting other interventions with a lower but still real probability of being cost effective at defined threshold levels.

Calibration, which is the ability to correctly relate the real probability of an event to its estimation from an external model, is pivotal in assessing the validity of predictive models based on dichotomous variables.

The new approximation results are compared to existing approximations from the literature and to the real probability functions calculated from a computer generated two-phase micrographs.