The phrase "attach a probability" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the likelihood or chance of an event occurring in a statistical or analytical context.
Example: "In our analysis, we need to attach a probability to each potential outcome to better understand the risks involved."
Alternatives: "assign a probability" or "apply a probability".
With proper analysis of the forecasting model it will be possible to attach a probability of exceedance to any central estimate.
Mr. Maurer said his firm preferred to say that there was a chance your portfolio could go down 25 percent, instead of trying to attach a probability to its happening.
Sticking their nose out, they expect Germany to beat Brazil 2-1, butheyey do not give a probability for that outcome.Your correspondent also sought the wisdom of his colleagues: asking them to select the winner, runner-up, third, and fourth semi-finalists; and attach a probability to each of the top-four teams' chances of winning the tournament.
They also used cutting-edge probability methods to simulate thousands of future population growth scenarios and attach a probability to various outcomes.
That happens when the circuits are so small that you can't say with any certainty where an electron is, you can only attach a probability to where it might be.
Basically, panels of experts are presented with hypothetical patient presentations and asked to attach a probability to each scenario that a particular illness is present.
One could also violate coherence by only attaching a probability of less than one to a single proposition that is a logical truth, or one could avoid different evaluations by having the same level of confidence in every proposition.
Warnaar says that Wikistrat's approach appears to rely on developing "what-if scenarios," rather than attaching a probability to a specific event happening, which is the goal of the Iarpa project.
Even with strengthening the second axiom to require that all necessary truths receive probability one, there is still a reading upon which the Converse Dutch Book theorem is false, since an agent will be vulnerable to a sure loss if she attaches a probability less than one to a known truth (or a probability greater than zero to a known falsehood).
To each cluster we attached a probability that a given sequence assigned to that cluster is a promoter.
Nick James at Numis said: Given the company has now suddenly come into play, there could be scope for a higher offer and we attach a 25% probability to a 10% improvement in price.
