Engelbrecht-Bresges is mindful of that competition, but promotes betting on racing as a game of skill rather than chance.
Rather than chance battle with Banks at six-to-one odds, on March 11 he abandoned Winchester, the principal city of the Lower Valley — hardly a fortuitous opening.
"The scientific constraints of modern meteorology as shown here," she writes, "suggest that their deaths may have been a matter of choice rather than chance".
Rather than chance it, Mr. Santoro, 21, and his friends refused to replace the bulb and made do with dozens of candles.
But maybe the alternative system would simply obscure the errors, spinning a comfortable illusion of an election decided by will rather than chance.
In structured systems, the exact shape of all column internals is determined by design rather than chance.
Further, heterogeneity between study outcomes was investigated using Q and I 2 statistics to assess if differences between outcomes are due to study diversity rather than chance [50].
I 2, the proportion of total variation between correlations that is caused by real heterogeneity rather than chance, was further calculated to measure the magnitude of heterogeniety.
The homogeneity assumption was measured by the I 2, which describes the percentage of total variation across studies that is due to heterogeneity rather than chance.
This statistic describes the percentage of total variation across studies that is due to heterogeneity rather than chance (25%: low, 50%: medium, 75%: high heterogeneity).
The report classifies the explosion as "accidental," although it also provides hints that the incident resulted from systemic failure rather than chance.
