PROBABILITY THEORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does probability theory mean? 

• PROBABILITY THEORY (noun)
  The noun PROBABILITY THEORY has 1 sense:

1. the branch of applied mathematics that deals with probabilities

  Familiarity information: PROBABILITY THEORY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROBABILITY THEORY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of applied mathematics that deals with probabilities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

probability theory; theory of probability

Hypernyms ("probability theory" is a kind of...):

applied math; applied mathematics (the branches of mathematics that are involved in the study of the physical or biological or sociological world)

Meronyms (parts of "probability theory"):

binomial theorem (a theorem giving the expansion of a binomial raised to a given power)

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)