Sentence examples for his probability from inspiring English sources

And his probability of actually becoming president are cut in half, to 7 percent.

However, his probability of winning the Electoral College increased by a trivial amount, to 85.7 percent from 85.1.

His probability of winning the Electoral College is now listed at 81.9 percent, his highest figure of the year and up from 79.7 percent on Tuesday.

His probability of winning a future party nomination is 53 percent, and of becoming president, 33 percent — about one in three.

I told her insurers hope they never have to pay; they wanted to make sure his probability of dying soon was low.

That's roughly in line with the online bookmakers, which now have Obama as the 1/2 favorite, or thereabouts, which implies that his probability of winning is 66.7percentnt.

"What Safire doesn't seem to realize," wrote Dan Seligman in Forbes magazine, "is that odds translate into percentage probabilities (e.g., 4-1 means the guy has a 20% chance) and that his probabilities add up to 168%.

What Safire doesn't seem to realize is that odds translate into percentage probabilities (e.g., 4-1 means the guy has a 20% chance) and that his probabilities add up to 168%.

Hence his probabilities are always with respect to a non-empty reference class, so the probability that an event is in a class B is in Reichenbach's notation, P A, B) where A is the reference class similar to the modern notation of the conditional probability P(B | A).

The individual's optimal decision is the one that maximizes his expected utility with respect to his subjective probability.

Assessments by individual experts were obtained with 2 3 elicitors present, in which each expert quantified his response as the 5th, 50th, and 95th percentiles of his subjective probability distribution for each target variable.