theory of probability

1. 1.

   the branch of applied mathematics that deals with probabilities

   Synonymsprobability theory

   Broaderapplied mathematics

   Partsbinomial theorem

   statistics

Questions about theory of probability

What does theory of probability mean?

theory of probability means "the branch of applied mathematics that deals with probabilities".

What is another word for theory of probability?

Close synonyms include probability theory. 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 theory of probability a common word?

theory of 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.