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  2. Rare events - Wikipedia

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    Scholarly and popular analyses of rare events often focus on those events that could be reasonably expected to have a substantial negative effect on a society—either economically [6] or in terms of human casualties [7] (typically, both). Examples of such events might include an 8.0+ Richter magnitude earthquake, a nuclear incident that kills ...

  3. Black swan theory - Wikipedia

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    The disproportionate role of high-profile, hard-to-predict, and rare events that are beyond the realm of normal expectations in history, science, finance, and technology. The non-computability of the probability of consequential rare events using scientific methods (owing to the very nature of small probabilities).

  4. Rare event sampling - Wikipedia

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    Rare event sampling is an umbrella term for a group of computer simulation methods ... In order to follow the time evolution of the probability of a rare event, it is ...

  5. List of probability distributions - Wikipedia

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    The exponential distribution, which describes the time between consecutive rare random events in a process with no memory. The exponential-logarithmic distribution The F-distribution , which is the distribution of the ratio of two (normalized) chi-squared-distributed random variables, used in the analysis of variance .

  6. Extreme value theory - Wikipedia

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    Extreme value theory is used to model the risk of extreme, rare events, such as the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. Extreme value theory or extreme value analysis (EVA) is the study of extremes in statistical distributions.

  7. 68–95–99.7 rule - Wikipedia

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    It is the observation of a plurality of purportedly rare events that increasingly undermines the hypothesis that they are rare, i.e. the validity of the assumed model. A proper modelling of this process of gradual loss of confidence in a hypothesis would involve the designation of prior probability not just to the hypothesis itself but to all ...

  8. 50 Wild Pics Showing Rare Coincidences That Almost Never ...

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    Image credits: SnooCupcakes8607 To dig deeper into these unusual occurrences, Bored Panda got in touch with Márton Balázs, Professor of Probability at the University of Bristol. “Coincidences ...

  9. Poisson limit theorem - Wikipedia

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    In probability theory, the law of rare events or Poisson limit theorem states that the Poisson distribution may be used as an approximation to the binomial distribution, under certain conditions. [1] The theorem was named after Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840).