Sentence examples for role of probability from inspiring English sources

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, by Leonard Mlodinow (Penguin, £9.99) In the tradition of Freakonomics and Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, a physics professor addresses the role of probability in our lives to scintillating and thought-provoking effect.

You don't have to believe in possible worlds to accept his seminal treatment of linguistic convention, his version of materialism in the philosophy of mind, his contribution to the role of probability in the natural sciences, his ingenious theory of personal identity over time or his account of the compatibility of free will and determinism.

The Weitere Studien starts with an appraisal of the role of probability theory in the context of gas theory.

A main difference with his previous (1866) claim, is that he now strongly emphasized the role of probability calculus in his derivation.

Realizing the key role of probability distributions in developing fragility estimates and loss prediction models, distribution fits and parameters for these structural components are postulated.

However, Boltzmann's ideas on the precise relationship between the thermodynamical properties of macroscopic bodies and their microscopic constitution, and the role of probability in this relationship are involved and differed quite remarkably in different periods of his life.

These novel measures use distance measures to assess the distance of a knowledge base to a consistent one and therefore takes the crucial role of probabilities into account.

Submitted in July1927, the purpose of this study was to examine the problem of the application of the probability calculus, hence its title "Chance and law: an epistemological analysis of the roles of probability and induction in the natural sciences".

To understand the role of prior probabilities, consider the HIV test example described in the previous section.

Further research is needed to uncover the role of equi-probability in the period 1200 1500; until then, we can only be sure that in this period the possibility of a strict ordering was envisaged for probabilities.

Therefore, in this paper, we discuss the possibility of the computational modeling of an intuitive inference guided by emotion in which random-seeming neural excitation plays the role of a probability-based parallel search of values.