probability distribution

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Their analysis showed that the resulting probability distribution did not align with the intended target and revealed extra noise in the experiment that had not been evaluated before.

From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 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

If Alice uses steganography to send an encoded message to Bob, that message will have its own 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

Your chances of a 4 coming up only twice are a little harder to calculate unless you use the binomial probability distribution mentioned in Chapter 1, which I’ll derive again in this context.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos