However, as the Japanese hardly ever use aspirin or anti-inflammatory drugs on a prophylactic basis, the probability of such confounding was probably low.
The mathematician promised that he would work out the probability of such a situation's repeating itself.
The probability of such a distribution occurring in authentic polls, Silver calculated, was "millions to one against".
On Tuesday, the FiveThirtyEight forecasting model estimated that the probability of such a scenario happening was about one in ten.
(According to the online betting side Intrade, the probability of such an outcome is still about sixty per cent).
While the probability of such a disaster may be small, the harm would be enormous.
He would have started to work out in his head the probability of such a thing.
It turns out that removing the Higgs possibilities (before squaring the whole thing) in WW scattering actually dramatically increases the probability of such a scatter.
Weinstein asked a bridge-playing math professor at the University of Chicago to calculate the probability of such a precise correlation's occurring by chance.
The probability of such allergic reactions was deemed low but the impact on susceptible individuals could be comparable to allergic reactions to existing foods, which are sometimes severe.
That's why attribution science is now being applied to single events, such as the extremely hot summers in Europe in 2003 and Australia in 2013, to see how the probability of such an event might have changed.
