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Probability is a measure of the likelihood of events happening. The greater the proportion of times an event can happen the greater (or more likely) the probability. Events can be ordered by the ...

Psycholinguists from the HSE Centre for Language and Brain found that when reading, people are not only able to predict specific words, but also words' grammatical properties, which helps them to read ...

- 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 ...