  Philosophers dealing with statistical explanation have generally focussed on everyday uses of probability in explanation, or the use of probabilistic explanations in such disciplines as the social sciences. Sometimes it has been suggested that to probabilistically explain an outcome is to show it likely to have occurred given the background facts of the world. In other cases it is suggested that to explain an outcome probabilistically is to produce facts which raise the probability of that outcome over what it would have been those facts being ignored. Still others suggest that probabilistic explanation is showing an event to have been the causal outcome of some feature of the world characterized by a probabilistic causal disposition.