cumulative probability

collocation in English

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cumulative
adjective
uk
/ˈkjuː.mjə.lə.tɪv/
us
/ˈkjuː.mjə.lə.t̬ɪv/
increasing by one addition ...
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probability
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌprɒb.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/
us
/ˌprɑː.bəˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
the level of possibility of something happening or ...
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All 11 component community samples demonstrated an approximately log-normal distribution of parasite species usingcumulativeprobabilityplots.
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The abscissa has been normalized so that the mean has a value of 50 and the ordinate has been normalized ascumulativeprobability.
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Normalization of the ordinate involved dividing by the total number of cells, resulting in a measure ofcumulativeprobability.
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We also estimated the critical values of correct analyses ranking given acumulativeprobabilityof 99%.
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Thecumulativeprobabilityof receiving a pacemaker within the first year was 50%, excluding children dying at birth.
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Cumulativeprobabilityof 3 year survival was 80%.
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Thecumulativeprobabilityfor inrushes, however, still showed the expected behaviour, which gives some support to the use of this method.
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In particular, the average contrast0response curves of both classes of bipolar cells approximate thecumulativeprobabilitydistribution of the contrasts in natural images.
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What is observed is thecumulativeprobabilityof the distribution from the threshold point to the limit of the distribution function, or the observed proportion of individuals with the trait.
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A further calculation was conducted to produce thecumulativeprobabilityof each species, that is, the sum of the probability for that rank and the probabilities for all previous ranks.
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Fig. 1 indicates thecumulativeprobabilityof remaining in remission after treatment plotted against time.
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Age datasets are analysed as percentages in geological intervals, and in histogram andcumulativeprobabilitydiagrams.
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Fig. 1 shows the (unadjusted)cumulativeprobabilityof survival according to course type.
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These individual scores are then sorted and converted into acumulativeprobabilitydistribution.
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It can be understood as bounds on thecumulativeprobabilityassociated with any "x" -value.
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However, over time, thecumulativeprobabilityof a chance encounter with a star increases, and disruption of the planets becomes all but inevitable.
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Mathematically it is thecumulativeprobabilitydensity function of the surface profile's height and can be calculated by integrating the profile trace.
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