The phrase "affected the chances" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how certain factors or events have influenced the likelihood of a particular outcome.
Example: "The recent changes in policy have significantly affected the chances of success for the new initiative."
Alternatives: "influenced the likelihood" or "impacted the odds".
If the dots plot in the same place, then climate change has not affected the chances of that event happening.
This study cannot say what impact the slower development has, or if this affected the chances of having a child.
We then investigated how morphological traits affected the chances of hybridization.
We first investigated how phenological traits affected the chances of interspecific hybridization between Bt-trangenic plants and weeds.
The meta-analysis did not provide any evidence that treatment for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia adversely affected the chances of conception.
Newly developed, expensive, biologically targeted agents have had marginal effects in improving survival and have not significantly affected the chances of cure [ 2].
"I don't think it's affected the chance for the football team to get better because of the staff," Paterno told reporters Tuesday.
Confidence intervals suggests that none of the considered variables significantly affected the chance of response.
It was observed in neuropathic diabetic foot ulcers that wound duration negatively affected the chance of healing after 12 weeks of proper wound care [ 13].
Because most of the potential vectors (i.e., black flies, mosquitoes, and biting midges) increase their activity during spring and summer, we cannot rule out that skin sampling conducted in late October affected the chance to detect additional infected animals.
Taking into account auto-correlation by GEE modeling, we assessed whether LMP (three strata) affected the chance of an abnormal cytology result among women with prevalent or incipient CIN2+ as diagnosed by the Pathology QC group.
