probabilistic
IPA: prɑbʌbˈɪɫˈɪstɪk
adjective
- (mathematics, probability theory) Of, pertaining to, or derived using probability.
- (religion) Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic doctrine of probabilism.
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Examples of "probabilistic" in Sentences
- The science of forensics is probabilistic.
- The theory assumes probabilistic causation.
- In the first case, the value is probabilistic.
- He also computed probabilistic estimates of the error.
- It seems like an application of the probabilistic method.
- Probabilistic induction remains the methodology of choice.
- Entropy is defined in the context of a probabilistic model.
- This is one of the demonstrations of the probabilistic algorithms.
- The objective of probabilistic design is to figure out possibility.
- In my opinion, you tend to confuse the data and the probabilistic model.
- Instead, all you need is to design agents capable of exhibiting various behaviors and give them certain probabilistic tendencies.
- Trygve Haavelmo was able to show convincingly that both fundamental problems could be solved if economic theories were formulated in probabilistic terms.
- Because the flow of all future paths is what is called probabilistic, known in general but not exactly, the exact future is not contained within the present.
- Proponents of populational interpretations (acausal or not) generally endorse a so-called probabilistic propensity definition of fitness which we shall now examine.
- One good reason is that natural selection and drift are co-products of the same process, namely a probabilistic sampling process (Brandon and Carson 1996, Matthen and Ariew 2002, Walsh et al. 2002).
- Finally, the third possibility, which might be referred to as a probabilistic or Bayesian approach, starts out from probabilistic premises, and then attempts to show that it follows deductively, via axioms of probability theory, that it is unlikely that God exists.
- Regulation by predicting what's probable has been evolving since 1975, when the NRC and reactor owners began moving from a traditional rulebook form of regulation -- involving specific requirements, for instance, about equipment and procedures -- toward what is known as probabilistic risk assessment, or PRA.
- Team her with another lifelong greenie, a man with a doctorate in organic chemistry who grew up on an Idaho ranch without electricity and whose day job, over the course of a long career, has included pioneering something called probabilistic risk assessment the underpinnings of climate-change analysis, but that's another story.
- “Inexact sciences like economics advance funeral by funeral,” Samuelson said, and he brought up one of his teachers at Chicago, Frank Knight, a brilliant scholar who is today remembered primarily for the distinction he drew between risk, which can be assessed in probabilistic terms, and uncertainty, which can’t be represented mathematically.