Sentence examples for probability of holding from inspiring English sources

Having a college degree increases the probability of holding stock and subscribing to a pension plan.

The result confirms that parents of candidates born before and after January 1 have a similar probability of holding a college degree.11 Similarly, Fig. 4 shows that there is no significant difference in terms of household income.

In order to be able to compare the magnitude of the impact of our different variables, the coefficients we report represent the effect on the probability of holding the specific asset.

Using the National Survey of College Graduates 2003, we find only 7% of the gap in patenting rates is accounted for by women's lower probability of holding any science or engineering degree, because women with such a degree are scarcely more likely to patent than women without.

And as to your point, I think disclosure will help people understand the real values so that you put a number on what you think the current present value of this asset is, based on the probability of holding it to maturity.

Thus, while the probability of holding the winning ticket in a (fair) lottery may be vanishingly small (assuming there are very many tickets, etc), many balk at crediting any given ticket-holder with knowledge that their ticket is not the winner.

If, for example, you buy 6 tickets in a 23,000,000 ticket lottery with 1,000 winners, then the odds of any one ticket being a winner is 1,000/23,000,000 or 1/23,000, so the probability of you holding a winner is 6/23,000 (about 1 in 3833, which is still about 0.00026 or 0.026%).

The impact of holding size was expected, because the probability that a sheep randomly selected from the British flock comes from a particular holding will be in proportion to the number of sheep in that holding.

The conjunction rule, the simplest and most fundamental law of probability [23], holds that the probability of a conjunction of two events cannot exceed that of either of its constituents (i.e., p(A&B)≤p(A), p(B)).

The impact of this change should not be exaggerated because the notions of probability held by Cicero and, in particular, Boethius were in significant respects close to those of Aristotle.

Based on this model and considering that unencumbered service time (UST) and cell dwell time (CDT) of SUs are independent generally distributed random variables, analytical formulae for both the probability distributions of channel holding times and inter-cell handoff attempts rate are derived.