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
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Yang, Z. PAML: a program package for phylogenetic analysis by maximum likelihood.
From Nature • May 8, 2018
Thus, BEAST2 can know that certain topologies are unlikely or impossible, whereas maximum likelihood cannot and thus inherently has greater uncertainty regarding tree topology.
From Nature • May 8, 2018
Secker, J. & Harris, W. E. A maximum likelihood analysis of globular cluster luminosity distributions in the Virgo ellipticals.
From Nature • Mar. 11, 2018
We then used the method of maximum likelihood to estimate the age distributions.
From Nature • Nov. 14, 2017
Nodes with bootstrap support values of at least 70 from the maximum likelihood analysis and posterior probabilities of at least 0.95 from the Bayesian analysis are indicated with asterisks.
From Nature • Dec. 25, 2016
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