Probability
The word probability derives from the Latin probare (to prove, or to test).
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Informally, probable is one of several words applied to uncertain events or knowledge,
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being more or less interchangeable with likely, risky, hazardous, uncertain, and doubtful, depending on the context.
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Chance, odds, and bet are other words expressing similar notions.
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As with the theory of mechanics which assigns precise definitions to such everyday terms as work and force,
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so the theory of probability attempts to quantify the notion of probable.
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~ Table of Content ~
| ► | Introduction |
| ► | Historical remarks |
| ► | Concepts |
| ► | Formalization of probability |
| ► | Probability in mathematics |
| ► | Applications of probability theory to everyday life |
| ► | See also |
| ► | External links |
| ► | Quotations |
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