Some may appear more frequently because they are favourable to the organism; the frequency of others may be determined by accidents of chance, called genetic drift.
In 1995 in the Book Review, Britt Chance called this "a history that reads like a historical novel... in the style and pungency of the writing".
I stood for a while, trying to fathom the rules of the most popular game on the floor, a Chinese game of chance called Dai Siu (Big-Small).
He simply recognizes that, wherever one nation is playing host to another, be it with good or ill will, there is an unmissable chance — call it an obligation — for both parties, host and guest, to tell stories of themselves.
But Yankees Manager Joe Torre has always understood the symbolic importance of a game like this and he took no chances, calling on closer Mariano Rivera to stamp out the Kansas City Royals before a real problem developed.
15 18 Neglecting these hidden differences in survival chances (called unobserved frailty) has been shown to lead to biased estimates of the mortality hazard and of the effect of the covariates on the survival probability.
A chance call took him to San Diego.
A chance phone call from James, my friend and partner in the Connor Brothers, saved my life one night.
A chance phone call in the spring of 2001 from Alecia Moore, a k a Pink, changed her life.
A range of symmetric error rates (the chance of calling the alternative allele in error) from 0 to 5% was considered and applied to simulated data assuming a binomial distribution.
