CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conditional probability mean? 

• CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY (noun)
  The noun CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

conditional probability; contingent probability

Hypernyms ("conditional probability" is a kind of...):

chance; probability (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)