In the marksmanship example, a trial consists of `` one round shot at a target '' with outcome either one bull's-eye ( success ) or none ( failure ).

He calls ‘ bad inflation ’ a period of accelerated expansion whose outcome conflicts with observations, and ‘ good inflation ’ one compatible with them: “ Not only is bad inflation more likely than good inflation, but no inflation is more likely than either.

In cases where it is possible to frame a claim in either contract or tort, it is necessary to be aware of what gives the best outcome.

It may refer either to equality of opportunity, the view that the government ought not to discriminate against citizens or hinder opportunities for them to prosper, or the quite different notion of equality of outcome, a state of economic affairs in which the government promotes equal prosperity for all citizens.

Because contracts of insurance have many features in common with wagers, insurance contracts are often distinguished under law as agreements in which either party has an interest in the " bet-upon " outcome beyond the specific financial terms.

The researchers gave their participants a choice: they could either bet on the outcome of a series of coin tosses, use an " expert " opinion to sway their decision, or choose a risk-free alternative instead for a smaller financial reward.

The participants also exhibited the gambler's fallacy, with their selection of either heads or tails decreasing after noticing a streak of that outcome.

The fourth, fifth, and sixth tosses all had the same outcome, either three heads or three tails.

Different methods of achieving proportional representation achieve either greater proportionality or a more determinate outcome.

Failing a military outcome, sieges can often be decided by starvation, thirst or disease, which can afflict either the attacker or defender.

In other words, the degree to which individuals display Trait C has little to do with either genes or broadly predictable environmental factors — roughly, the outcome approaches random for an individual.

Becky is not very concerned for the outcome of the war, either ; should Napoleon win, she plans to become the mistress of one of his marshals.

Impartial games fall into two outcome classes: either the next player wins ( an N-position ) or the previous player wins ( a P-position ).

The strategy is effectively a form of Nash equilibrium in which neither side, once armed, has any rational incentive either to initiate a conflict or to disarm ( presuming neither side considers self-destruction an acceptable outcome ).

An imbalanced book may arise since there is no way for a bookmaker either to know the true probabilities for the outcome of competitions left to human effort or to predict the bets that will be attracted from others by fixed odds compiled on the basis of his own personal view and knowledge.

By adjusting the odds in his favour or by having a point spread, the bookmaker will aim to guarantee a profit by achieving a ' balanced book ', either by getting an equal number of bets for each outcome, or ( when he is offering odds ) by getting the amounts wagered on each outcome to reflect the odds.

* The Battle of Crotona is fought between Hannibal's Carthaginian army, and a Roman force led by Publius Sempronius Tuditanus, with no decisive outcome for either side.

But either way, if a market failure exists the outcome is not pareto efficient.

The books are distinguished by O ' Brian's deliberate use and adaptation of actual historical events, either integrating his protagonists in the action without changing the outcome, or using adapted historical events as templates.

In the theory of probability and statistics, a Bernoulli trial is an experiment whose outcome is random and can be either of two possible outcomes, " success " and " failure ".

Thomas Jefferson, who was serving as Minister to France at the time, was neither a Federalist nor an Anti-federalist but decided to remain neutral and accept either outcome.

Hence, the outcome is either p < sub > i </ sub > or 1-p < sub > i </ sub >, as in the previous line.

One regrettable outcome of this trend, which coincided with rising inner-city property values, was that many of the largest studios were either demolished or redeveloped for other uses.

These contracts are structured as binary options where the payoff is either some fixed amount of money or nothing at all, dependent on the outcome of a future event.

* Sports arbitrage – numerous internet bookmakers offer odds on the outcome of the same event.

Different bookmakers may offer different odds on the same outcome of a given event ; by taking the best odds offered by each bookmaker, a customer can under some circumstances cover all possible outcomes of the event and lock a small risk-free profit, known as a Dutch book.

The other significant outcome of the event die is Progress cards, which replace development cards.

In many-worlds, the subjective appearance of wavefunction collapse is explained by the mechanism of quantum decoherence, which resolves all of the correlation paradoxes of quantum theory, such as the EPR paradox and Schrödinger's cat, since every possible outcome of every event defines or exists in its own " history " or " world ".

Because these natural phenomena cannot be controlled, they inevitably affect the outcome of the given activity or event.

Gambling is the wagering of money or something of material value ( referred to as " the stakes ") on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money and / or material goods.

Arbitrage betting is a theoretically risk-free betting system in which every outcome of an event is bet upon so that a known profit will be made by the bettor upon completion of the event, regardless of the outcome.

In the hot-hand fallacy, people tend to predict the same outcome of the last event ( positive recency )-that a high scorer will continue to score.

In gambler's fallacy, however, people predict the opposite outcome of the last event ( negative recency )-that, for example, since the roulette wheel has landed on black the last six times, it is due to land on red the next.

In Event Stream Processing, idempotence refers to the ability of a system to produce the same outcome, even if an event or message is received more than once.

In any event, as late as 2001, the economic outcome could still be seen in cities like Beira.

In Méthodologie Historique ( written in 1906 but not published until 1988 ), Bloch rejected the histoire événementielle ( event history ) of his mentors Charles-Victor Langlois and Charles Seignobos to argue for greater analysis of the role of structural and social phenomena in determining the outcome of historical events.

The most popular version of objective probability is frequentist probability, which claims that the probability of a random event denotes the relative frequency of occurrence of an experiment's outcome, when repeating the experiment.

In probability theory, an elementary event ( also called an atomic event or simple event ) is an event which contains only a single outcome in the sample space.

Elementary events and the corresponding outcome are often written interchangeably for simplicity, as such an event corresponds to precisely one outcome.

When asked about this by American Cinematographer, Spielberg said, " I think that World War II is the most significant event of the last 100 years ; the fate of the Baby Boomers and even Generation X was linked to the outcome.

Late point of attack plays are generally reactions to an event that has already occurred, or to an outcome that is imminent.