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:

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

    “It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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