• Report on Probability A is a science fiction novel by British writer Brian Aldiss. The novel was completed in 1962 and published in 1967 in the British...
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    of an event is a number between 0 and 1; the larger the probability, the more likely an event is to occur. The higher the probability of an event, the...
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    In probability theory and statistics, the Poisson distribution is a discrete probability distribution that expresses the probability of a given number...
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  • A Treatise on Probability , published by John Maynard Keynes in 1921, provides a much more general logic of uncertainty than the more familiar and straightforward...
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    A Markov chain or Markov process is a stochastic model describing a sequence of possible events in which the probability of each event depends only on...
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    theory, algorithmic probability, also known as Solomonoff probability, is a mathematical method of assigning a prior probability to a given observation...
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    that the story was based on real events. Brian Aldiss used the painting as a leitmotif in his 1968 novel Report on Probability A. 100 Great Paintings, 1980...
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    Hall problem is a brain teaser, in the form of a probability puzzle, based nominally on the American television game show Let's Make a Deal and named after...
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    95% probability) to have been the dominant cause of the observed global warming since the mid-20th century. Conclusions of the fifth assessment report are...
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    probability and statistics, Student's t distribution (or simply the t distribution)   t ν   {\displaystyle \ t_{\nu }\ } is a continuous probability distribution...
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