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Definition of Likelihood

1. Noun. The probability of a specified outcome.

Definition of Likelihood

1. n. Appearance; show; sign; expression.

Definition of Likelihood

1. Noun. The probability of a specified outcome; the chance of something happening; probability; the state of being probable. ¹

2. Noun. (mathematics) Shorthand for likelihood function; the probability that a real world experiment would generate a specific datum, as a function of the parameters of a mathematical model. ¹

3. Noun. Likeness, resemblance. ¹

4. Noun. (archaic) Appearance, show, sign, expression. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Likelihood

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Medical Definition of Likelihood

1. 1. Appearance; show; sign; expression. "What of his heart perceive you in his face By any likelihood he showed to-day ?" (Shak) 2. Likeness; resemblance. "There is no likelihood between pure light and black darkness, or between righteousness and reprobation." (Sir W. Raleigh) 3. Appearance of truth or reality; probability; verisimilitude. Origin: Likely + -hood. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Likelihood

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Analytic Statistical Models by Ib M. Skovgaard (1990)
"3 Asymptotic normality of the local maximum likelihood estimator For sequences of ... By 'local' we mean the maximum likelihood estimator for the model ..."

2. Higher Order Asymptotics by J. K. Ghosh (1994)
"The traditional method of using the likelihood to make inference about the parameter of interest is to use the so-called profile likelihood, ..."

3. Mixture Models: Theory, Geometry, and Applications by Bruce G. Lindsay (1995)
"The problem is to maximize the mixture likelihood (5.1) ... The likelihood kernel may well depend on other auxiliary parameters and covariates, ..."

4. The Organon, Or Logical Treatises of Aristotle: With the Introduction of by Aristotle (1853)
"E«OS—con- likelihood and sign, however, ... with Sir W. Hamilton, to interpret " likelihood " to the other senses given by commentators we have named in the ..."

5. Analysis of Censored Data: Proceedings of the Workshop on Analysis of by Hira L. Koul, J. V. Deshpande (1995)
"Asymptotic normality, efficiency, current status data, interval censoring, information, maximum likelihood estimator, proportional odds regression model, ..."

6. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1848)
"But in all likelihood these were soon neglected. This extraordinary assumption of power by the commons was not merely ow- 1 ing to the king's poverty. ..."

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