QUESTION FROM ANNE: Your estimate of the probability of the U.S. debt being downgraded?
A rating is simply an estimate of the probability of default.
At a media briefing on Saturday, the mayor of Houston, Annise Parker, warned of the probability of street flooding.
The value of the probability sampling methods that Professor Kish worked out was shown in the 1948 presidential election.
"On a statistical basis, it's twice as likely," he said of the probability of blackouts in southwestern Connecticut.
Many medical investigators now speak in terms of the probability that a tumor is deadly.
Even computerized Monte Carlo analyses of the probability of achieving your goals are useful.
This lets us find realistic estimates of the probability of the Nets' winning future games.
For a company, that's very far at the end of the probability distribution".
But Mr. Rothfeld said that if the defense team decided to file the motion, the action would not be based on a calculation of the probability of victory.
The New Yorker, January 10 , 1931 P. 9Scientists now speak of the probability of prolonging infancy to the age of forty.
