Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• PRO RATA - Latin, meaning "according to the rate." Pro rata refers to dividing something (costs, income...
  
  
• PRO RATE - To divide in proportionate shares, such as taxes, insurance premiums, etc. between buyer and...
  
  
• PRO-FORMA - to provide in advance to a prescribed form or to describe items
  
  
• PRO-FORMA INVOICE - a price quote. It is written as an invoice, and, in effect, says: 'This is the purc...
  
  
• PRO-FORMA STATEMENT - Latin meaning a statement "according to form". Financial projections.
  
  
• PROBABILITY - The relative likelihood of a particular outcome among all possible outcomes.
  
  
• PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION - The function that describes the change of certain realizations for a con...
  
  
• PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION - Is the mechanism which generates occurrences, observations, events, returns,...
  
  
• PROBABILITY FUNCTION - A measure that assigns a likelihood of occurrence to each and every possible out...
  
  
• PROBABILITY MEASURE - A measure (q.v.) that maps a set of points in a probability space into a point in...