Sentence examples for relative chances from inspiring English sources

If you have multiple models, one could compute pairwise relative chances i.e. odds ratios, or Bayes factors.

A chart compared the relative chances of collapse of a number of dams worldwide, and the likely death toll.

They're thinking about the relative chances of entering a particular occupation or a particular income decile, depending on where your parents were located in the inequality system.

One Obama adviser counseled against interpreting Mr. Summers's inclusion on the 17-member economic advisory board that Mr. Obama announced on Thursday, and Mr. Geithner's absence, as indicating anything about their relative chances.

Relative reliability also may be weighted according to the relative chances of making the correct decision; this is done by determining the difference in payoffs when making the correct versus incorrect decision.

The data includes information about their employment history, work and domestic responsibilities and indicators of professional esteem, which can be used to ensure that the analysis compares like with like when comparing the relative chances of men and women being promoted.

Examining the fathers' scores for emotional responses to their babies, taking into account factors such as the child's gender, family size and socioeconomic status, it was found that for every point the scores increased above the average, the relative chance of the child having signs of behavioural problems decreased by 14%, and 11% at ages nine and 11 respectively.

Only 45% have a 5-year relative chance of surviving ovarian cancer [1].

Changes in the unemployment rate in home or first-order neighbouring districts do not impact the influence of unemployment in the second-order neighbouring districts on the relative chance of entering dual training.

Fig. 4 AMEs (model 2) of unemployment rate in 1st neighbouring districts on the relative chance of entering dual training for specific values of unemployment in home district (with 90 %-CIs), Data: GSOEP, Federal Employment Office, Federal Statistical Office.

The relative chance for a result to be published is assumed to be depend on Zi = Xi/σi, because the value of Zi typically determines the p-value associated with a study result.