probabilistic

[ prob-uh-buh-lis-tik ]

adjective

1. Statistics. of or relating to probability:

   probabilistic forecasting.

2. of or relating to probabilism.

Word History and Origins

Origin of probabilistic¹

1650–60; probabil(ism) or probabil(ity) + -istic; compare French probabiliste believer in probabilism

Example Sentences

Others are experimenting with more probabilistic techniques that use far less data, inspired by a human child’s ability to learn from very few examples.

From MIT Technology Review

I’m also going to set aside the question of how probabilistic forecasts like FiveThirtyEight’s did.

From FiveThirtyEight

Since particles’ exact trajectories are unknowable, researchers sought a more probabilistic approach.

From Quanta Magazine

This probabilistic argument is widely known, but no one has been able to extend it to a complete proof of the conjecture.

From Quanta Magazine

Rather than relying on the brain’s visible “landmarks,” which can still differ between people, the probabilistic map is far more precise, the authors said.

From Singularity Hub 

Almost all the forecast that I publish, in politics and other fields, are probabilistic.

From The Daily Beast