Probabilistic argument
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Probabilistic argument can refer to the following:
- In some contexts, probabilistic argument means any argument involving probability theoryProbability theoryProbability theory is the branch of mathematics concerned with analysis of random phenomena. The central objects of probability theory are random variables, stochastic processes, and events: mathematical abstractions of non-deterministic events or measured quantities that may either be single...
- In some contexts, it means a method of non-constructive existence proof in mathematics called the probabilistic methodProbabilistic methodThe probabilistic method is a nonconstructive method, primarily used in combinatorics and pioneered by Paul Erdős, for proving the existence of a prescribed kind of mathematical object. It works by showing that if one randomly chooses objects from a specified class, the probability that the...