Definition of Conditional probability

1. Noun. The probability that an event will occur given that one or more other events have occurred.

Exact synonyms: Contingent Probability
Generic synonyms: Chance, Probability

Medical Definition of Conditional probability

1. A probability quoted when the range of choices admitted is restricted, i.e., conditional; thus, the probability of the child of a colour-blind man inheriting the gene is 1/2 if the child is female and almost zero if the child is male. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conditional Probability

conditing
condition
condition precedent
conditionable
conditional
conditional-lethal mutant
conditional agreement
conditional contract
conditional entropy
conditional mood
conditional moods
conditional mutation
conditional perfect
conditional probability (current term)
conditional proof
conditional reaction
conditional reflex
conditional relation
conditional response
conditional sale
conditional sentence
conditional sentences
conditional tense
conditional tenses
conditional use permit
conditionalisation
conditionalisations
conditionalism

Literary usage of Conditional probability

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Societal Value of Geologic Maps by Richard L. Bernknopf (1994)
"conditional probability of contamination of rock materials in eastern Loudoun ... The conditional probability of contamination ranges from 0.37 to 0.53, ..."

2. State of the Art in Probability and Statistics: Festschrift for Willem R by Mathisca de Gunst, Chris Klaassen, A. W. van der Vaart (2001)
"The conditional intensity \(u; x) of X at a location u € S may be loosely interpreted as giving the conditional probability that X has a point at u given ..."

3. Access to Credit and Its Impact on Welfare in Malawi by Aliou Diagne, Manfred Zeller (2001)
"... x,j) is the population conditional probability density of y given (x,j); ... x) being the true conditional probability that ..."

4. Statistical Inference from Genetic Data on Pedigrees by Elizabeth Alison Thompson (2000)
"The second block of four columns gives the total conditional probability of ibd patterns in which at least four of the six haplotypes are ibd. ..."

5. Change-Point Problems by Edward G. Carlstein, Hans-Georg Müller, David Siegmund (1994)
"Let b*(t, wt) denote b — (7(st)wt sup —= -Vl-*2(M)-f(M)Te(M) Then the conditional probability that Wa exceeds 6 is bounded by the conditional probability ..."

6. Food Insecurity And Hunger in the United States: An Assessment of the Measure by Gooloo S. Wunderlich, Janet Lippe Norwood (2006)
"This idea is formalized using conditional probability, and, to define it, ... In terms of conditional probability, the statistical independence of X, and X, ..."

7. Probability, Statistics, and Their Applications: Papers in Honor of Rabi by Krishna B. Athreya, Rabindra Nath Bhattacharya (2003)
"It follows that with probability 1 the same relation holds almost surely with respect to the conditional probability given Ho, establishing (3.7 ). ..."

8. Probability and Statistics for Petroleum Resource Assessment by Robert A. Crovelli (1999)
"conditional probability Notation P(AIB) denotes the conditional probability of event A given that the event B has occurred. Given that B has occurred, ..."

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