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Take everyone shot at school divided by everyone that has gone to school and you have a rough estimate of your odds of being shot at school, which is most likely extremely small.
There are no odds. It just happens.
If you mean the odds of a child in the US being shot- actually, very low- and has been getting lower for several years. Some groups with a political agenda claim there are more deaths from children being shot than there are ALL deaths of children- so check your sources carefully- and see how they define "Child". Assuming child means a human under 18 years old, there about 74.5 million of them in the US (some groups consider a 26 year old to be a child) The FBI Uniform Crime Report shows 454 murders of children, with about 20% being shot. That is about 1 in 818,000. However, the odds of a child being shot goes up if you live in a high crime city, belong to a gang, or commit criminal acts.
adjusted odds ratios are the odds of a dichotomous event being true adjusted for or controlling for other possible contributions from other variables in the model.
One way that probability is used in sports is to determine the odds of something. For example the odds of winning the game or the odds of a play being successful.