Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun contingent_probability

1 sense of contingent probability

Sense 1
conditional probability, contingent probability -- (the probability that an event will occur given that one or more other events have occurred)
       => probability, chance -- (a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible; "the probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5")