Sentence examples for is a matter of probability from inspiring English sources

Thus a large part of the controversy over connection may, in practice, be reduced to the question of whether connection is a matter of probability or process (Section 2.1).

An accident is not so much a being as "of a being" (PB 5.427) For practical purposes Godfrey accepts the number of predicaments as ten, but indicates that determination of their precise number is a matter of probability rather than certainty (Wippel, 1981, 174 75).

Moreover, recent reports suggest that splicing might be stochastic, i.e., that the use of a particular exon or splice site is a matter of probability and that many minor alternative events might arise as stochastic noise (Djebali et al., 2012; Melamud and Moult, 2009).

Moreover, these cases might suggest that connection is a matter of probabilities rather than processes.

It's a matter of probability.

Linear extrapolation for cancer, for example, is based on a stochastic assumption: that the potential for critical damage to DNA is a matter of chance, and that this probability depends only on dose in a linear relationship, so that a doubling of dose results in a directly proportional increase in the chance of critical DNA damage (Dourson & Haber, 2010; US EPA, 1976; US EPA, 1986a; US EPA, 2005).

Cooke agrees that it's a matter of "probabilities" but won't guess the odds.

It is a matter of statistical probability.

But as with all statistics, this is a matter of risk and probabilities.

Calculating the probability of multiple events is a matter of breaking the problem down into separate probabilities.

The interpretation of probabilities and utilities is a matter of debate.