The model calculated the likelihood that a bird would land in oil, an event likely to kill it by interrupting feeding patterns or causing other complications.
Before setting out he trawled over all the relevant information he could find: he read 35 years' of weather reports and calculated the likelihood of gales, researched seasonal sea temperatures and worked out survival times.
By combining a computational model with experiments on the evolution of drug resistance in bacteria, Gore and his students have, for the first time, calculated the likelihood of a particular evolutionary adaptation reversing itself.
Do not think for a moment that Nicklaus, the man who has been in Woods's crosshairs all these years, has not calculated the likelihood of Woods's catching him.
The researchers examined data from the United States Renal Data System, including a list of 563,197 patients who developed end-stage kidney disease from 2000 to 2005, and they calculated the likelihood of getting on a transplant list, adjusting for factors that would affect the patient's survival after surgery.
We have calculated the likelihood that the potential nominees will be the most Scalia-like of the group, and for comparison's sake have added data on Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito from their time on the D.C. Circuit and Third Circuit, respectively.
Using public data on the number of dead birds found during and after the spill, they calculated the likelihood of finding a given bird by factoring in daily winds and currents, carcass drift speeds and carcass disappearance rates on shorelines from decay and scavenging, among other parameters.
Finally, the researchers calculated the likelihood that each tree was correct based on their gene family DNA sequences.
They then calculated the likelihood that a 39-year-old man with each of Roosevelt's eight symptoms would suffer from polio or Guillain-Barré.
But scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have calculated the likelihood of an Atlantic tsunami from another source--a comet or asteroid.
They calculated the likelihood that people shared a surname within a given region and then compared how similar the regions were to one another.
