maximum likelihood
Britishnoun
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the probability of randomly drawing a given sample from a population maximized over the possible values of the population parameters
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the non-Bayesian rule that, given an experimental observation, one should utilize as point estimates of parameters of a distribution those values which give the highest conditional probability to that observation, irrespective of the prior probability assigned to the parameters
Example Sentences
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One hundred and twenty-four branch lengths were extracted using TempEst62 from trees inferred using neighbour joining, maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods.
From Nature ● May 8, 2018
The run with maximum likelihood was used to assign individual genotypes into groups.
From Nature ● May 8, 2018
Using the maximum likelihood algorithm of JoinMap, the order of the markers was determined; using this as start order and fixed order, regression mapping in JoinMap was used to determine the cM distances.
From Nature ● Feb. 7, 2017
A simultaneous unbinned extended maximum likelihood fit is performed to the data of the two experiments, using the invariant-mass distributions of all 20 MVA discriminant categories of both experiments.
From Nature ● May 12, 2015
A maximum likelihood tree was created, rooted by the split between two major types of terpene synthase genes, and nodes were coloured by species.
From Nature ● Jun. 10, 2014
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