Naturally, many hiring models attempt to calculate the likelihood that a job candidate will stick around.
Suppose you want to calculate the likelihood of tossing two coins and coming up with one head.
A post at Certain Doubts attempts to calculate the likelihood of death.
(b) An attempt to calculate the likelihood of intelligent life existing elsewhere in the Galaxy.
I wish that Saul, a retired actuary able to calculate the likelihood and consequences of acts of God, had told me that before I bought the boat.
Using an algorithm to calculate the likelihood that a lawsuit will succeed, the company then invests in cases it deems promising.
Shortly after Sept. 11, however, the insurers withdrew coverage for terrorism, saying they could not calculate the likelihood of a terrorist attack or withstand repeated losses on the scale of the trade center attack.
The solution: instruct the model to calculate the likelihood that, given an empty e-mail message, it would also suggest "I love you" as a response, and use that as a filter.
An entire industry of weather bookies -- scientists who calculate the likelihood of various natural disasters -- had in effect set the odds: a storm that destroys $70 billion of insured property should strike the United States only once every 100 years.
One, by a team at Cambridge, concluded that it was not possible to accurately calculate the likelihood of all five mutations occurring in nature.
Correction to this articleHALF a century ago a radio astronomer called Frank Drake thought of a way to calculate the likelihood of establishing contact with aliens.
