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
Secker, J. & Harris, W. E. A maximum likelihood analysis of globular cluster luminosity distributions in the Virgo ellipticals.
From Nature ● Mar. 11, 2018
The phylogeny was inferred using the maximum likelihood method based on the JTT matrix-based model67.
From Nature ● Feb. 7, 2017
Phylogenetic analysis of each data set was conducted using Bayesian inference in MrBayes and maximum likelihood in RAxML; input alignments are provided in Supplementary Data 8.
From Nature ● Dec. 25, 2016
Unrooted maximum likelihood trees from the RAxML analyses. a, Best scoring maximum likelihood tree from the phylogenetic analysis of SVP/AGL22 and StMADS11-like sequences. b, Best scoring maximum likelihood tree for the SOC1-like sequences.
From Nature ● Dec. 25, 2016
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