Odds

Odds

The odds in favor of an event or a proposition are the ratio of the probability that an event will happen to the probability that it will not happen. For example, the odds that a randomly chosen day of the week is a Sunday are one to six, which is sometimes written 1:6.

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Famous quotes containing the word odds:

    “A man can seldom—very, very, seldom—fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “Indeed the involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.”
    —Kate Millett (b. 1934)

    “Macbeth. What is the night?
    Lady Macbeth. Almost at odds with morning, which is which.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)