likelihood of occurrence
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflikelihoodandoccurrence
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likelihood
noun[U]
uk/ˈlaɪ.kli.hʊd/us/ˈlaɪ.kli.hʊd/
the chance that something ...
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occurrence
noun
uk/əˈkʌr.əns/us/əˈkɝː.əns/
something ...
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(Definition oflikelihoodandoccurrencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Characteristically, variationists handle these data quantitatively, specifying distributional constraints in terms of a greater or lesserlikelihoodofoccurrencerather than as categorical.
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In addition, by using statistical techniques the varieties in settlement patterns are strongly reduced to a simplelikelihoodofoccurrence.
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Finally, these behaviors had to a high degree the potentialities to estimate thelikelihoodofoccurrenceof pain.
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In all cases the word alternatives would be semantically plausible, although many would be of a lowlikelihoodofoccurrencewithin the specific sentence context.
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If these events are rare, thelikelihoodofoccurrencewill depend on the absolute number of opportunities for their occurrence.
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There were three basic dependent measures : (1) the first occurrence of a tense-aspect form, (2) thelikelihoodofoccurrence, and (3) contrast.
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The difference in thelikelihoodofoccurrenceis quite salient in different ways in the two languages.
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Biphone average is the meanlikelihoodofoccurrenceof each pair of adjacent sounds in a given word position.
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Positional segment average is the meanlikelihoodofoccurrenceof each sound in a given word position.
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Yet measures can be taken to limit thelikelihoodofoccurrenceand to mitigate the degrading environmental consequences.
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However, measures can be taken to limit thelikelihoodofoccurrenceand to mitigate the degrading environmental consequences.
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Some researchers have found that genetics increase thelikelihoodofoccurrenceof obesity through higher levels of fat deposition and adipokine secretion.
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Each operator in a sentence makes a contribution in information according to itslikelihoodofoccurrencewith its arguments.
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Assessment of risk is made by combining the severity of consequence with thelikelihoodofoccurrencein a matrix.
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Participants frequently assign a higherlikelihoodofoccurrenceto whichever outcome they have been told is true.
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Risk with a large potential loss and a low probability of occurrence, is often treated differently from one with a low potential loss and a highlikelihoodofoccurrence.
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Stringlining is a potential cause of derailment that train handling techniques must take into account in order to reduce thelikelihoodofoccurrence.
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