The phrase "alter the probability of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts involving statistics, risk assessment, or decision-making where the likelihood of an event is being changed or influenced.
Example: "The new evidence may alter the probability of a successful outcome in the experiment."
Alternatives: "change the likelihood of" or "affect the chances of".
But changing landscapes — and a changing climate — could alter the probability of flooding.
Such changes alter the probability of proteins to choose a certain unfolding pathway.
Possessing a university degree does not alter the probability of someone believing that global warming is a hoax – that tracks prior political commitments, not superior knowledge.
But all that climate change or solar geoengineering does is alter the probability of those things slowly and gradually over time.
Disturbance associated with roads can alter the probability of habitat use by making suitable habitat near roads inaccessible or underused.
The extent to which these tests alter the probability of asthma depends on how much more commonly the test result is positive in subjects with asthma compared to healthy subjects and particularly subjects with conditions that are commonly confused with asthma.
In addition, climate change will alter the probabilities of wildfire, flood and drought risks and could substantially change vegetation and water runoff relationships.
The impact of climate change to alter the probabilities of extreme events can be challenging to communicate and understand, and so the game focuses on this concept, using drought as an example.
We used a computational model of synaptic transmission to test if and to what extent the stochastic fluctuations of an input signal could alter the probability to change the state of a synapse.
For two participants, 10-min of free access to a preferred edible immediately prior to a preference assessment altered the probability of selecting that stimulus, but as the delay between the free-access period and the preference assessment increased, the abative effects became less apparent.
