THE subject of probability originated in the consideration of actual but trivial problems. Its obvious attractions as a field for the exercise of mathematical ingenuity soon gave it a predominantly ...

The figure is meant to give some measure of the probability of rain taking place - usually over a specified area and time. The trouble is that the very meaning of probability is far from cut and dried ...

IN his article on The Meaning of Probability in NATURE of September 14, Dr. Dingle has attempted to support his case by means of a striking example. Unfortunately his illustration is by no means ...

- a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible Example - " the probability that an unbiased coin ...