LIKELIHOOD meaning: Probability of data given model

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word likelihood:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

likelihood: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
likelihood: Merriam-Webster
likelihood: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
likelihood: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
likelihood: Collins English Dictionary
likelihood: Vocabulary.com
Likelihood, likelihood: Wordnik
likelihood: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
likelihood: Wiktionary
likelihood: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
likelihood: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
likelihood: Infoplease Dictionary
Likelihood, likelihood: Dictionary.com
likelihood: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Likelihood: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Likelihood: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
likelihood: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
likelihood: Rhymezone
likelihood: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
likelihood: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
likelihood: FreeDictionary.org
likelihood: Mnemonic Dictionary
likelihood: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Business (1 matching dictionary)

likelihood: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

likelihood: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

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likelihood: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

likelihood: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)

Likelihood: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
likelihood: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  The probability of a specified outcome; the chance of something happening; probability; the state or degree of being probable.
▸ noun:  (statistics, probability theory) The probability that some fixed outcome was generated by a random distribution with a specific parameter.
▸ noun:  Likeness, resemblance.
▸ noun:  (archaic) Appearance, show, sign, expression.

Opposite:

improbability, unlikelihood, impossibility, rarity, uncertainty

Types:

high, medium, low, improbable, possible, unlikely, remote, almost certain, more...

Phrases:

maximum likelihood, likelihood ratio, Likelihood function, likelihood functions, in all likelihood, more...

Adjectives:

greater, lesser, maximum, higher, stronger, more, lower, reasonable, relative, equal, substantial

Colors:

blue, green, yellow, orange, red, more...

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