statistical probability

“The statistical probability of a discrepancy is more likely to occur in counties with many voters,” said Paul Gronke, a professor at Reed College and the director of the Elections and Voting Information Center.

The deeper problem is that the plaintiffs are merely speculating that on some unknowable day in the future, there is some statistical probability that they’ll treat a mifepristone patient.

At the time, says Stephanie Herring, a climate scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the question was considered “super in the weeds,” intriguing primarily to researchers who enjoyed debating statistical probability and the atmosphere's physical dynamics.

The dissent proposes a hitherto unheard-of test for organizational standing: whether, accepting the organization’s self-description of the activities of its members, there is a statistical probability that some of those members are threatened with concrete injury … This novel approach to the law of organizational standing would make a mockery of our prior cases, which have required plaintiff-organizations to make specific allegations establishing that at least one identified member had suffered or would suffer harm.

It works like a supercharged predictive text, putting one word in front of another based on statistical probability.