contingent probability

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsconditional probability

   Broaderprobability

Questions about contingent probability

What does contingent probability mean?

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

What is another word for contingent probability?

Close synonyms include conditional probability. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is contingent probability a common word?

contingent probability is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.