probability distribution

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The team derived their quantum Bayes' rule by maximizing the fidelity between two objects that represent the forward and the reverse process, in analogy with a classical joint probability distribution.

From Science Daily • Oct. 13, 2025

However, when simulations of a physical system using tried-and-true scientific techniques are available, researchers get a model of its probability distribution for free.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2024

Altogether, the words can be represented as a probability distribution.

From Scientific American • Jun. 15, 2023

It comes from constructing what’s called a probability distribution, and requires some basic grade-school statistics.

From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2022

Equally, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle implies that particles behave in some respects like waves: they do not have a definite position but are “smeared out” with a certain probability distribution.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking