Instead, it was based on the statistical likelihood of a given model breaking down or otherwise requiring repair.

The statistical likelihood of anyone being personally harmed by terrorists is low.

Another key reason is that, independent of statistical likelihood, some patients do in fact turn out to have multiple diseases.

What's the statistical likelihood that people will follow your advice?

But rationality - including the ability to base decisions about risk on statistical likelihood - is unique to humans.

Another student can examine the statistical likelihood of becoming pregnant were she to use various birth control methods.

Jahn has figured out that the statistical likelihood of achieving these results by chance is 1 in 10 billion.

There is no subject where attending a polytechnic increases the statistical likelihood of being unemployed by more than three or four times.

I'd be interested in knowing the statistical likelihood of a book ending up with the same editor it started out with.

What was the probability - the unvarnished statistical likelihood - of such a coincidence?