His analysis of chance is based on his account of laws of nature (1973), which in turn refines an account due to Ramsey (1928/1990).
Loewer (2001) draws on the best systems analysis of chance to argue that, in worlds like ours (with entropy-increasing processes, and apparently fair coin tosses, etc)., the best description involves some probabilistic component which deserves to be called chance.
Many readers will remember the way he wrote about that episode, not only for its personal candor but also for the fact that he found comfort in a statistical analysis of his chances of survival.
When 3,000 philosophers get together in one place, you might expect them to focus on some of the hotter philosophical issues of the day: Bush versus Gore as seen through the eyes of Kant; a post-empiricist critique of the validity of counting dimpled chads; an Aristotelian analysis of the chances of a recession.
Since the discrimination of the high/low grade MDS is an important issue in the prognosis and the analysis of the chances of survival for the patient, our proposed GVL score gives an analytical criterion for the analysis using SNP arrays.
An overview of the current fermentation technology used to produce specialized metabolites and a detailed analysis of the chances for genetically improving the producing microbes in the postgenomics era are following.
There was little variation in the findings between women from different socioeconomic groups or across other subgroups of women with the exception of fruit fibre by body mass index, although given the large number of tests conducted for this analysis, the role of chance cannot be excluded.
A FORMIDABLE analysis of John McCain's chances in 2008 from Chuck Todd at National Journal, but you'll need a cold towel round your head to follow all the twists and turns.
Barack Obama's town hall meeting in Levittown, PA, yesterday was, in the sphere of political conversation, the epilogue to Michael Sokolove's fine essay in the New York Times Sunday magazine blending a reminiscence of the changes in Levittown since his childhood there with an analysis of Obama's chances with Levittown voters.
However, using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve analysis, the chance of detecting the presence of scour from the output frequencies is improved significantly and even modest scour depths of 0.25 pile diameters can be detected.
According to its analysis, the chance of an amateur golfer getting a hole in one is 12,500 to one.
