likelihood
The probability of a specified outcome; the chance of something happening; probability; the state or degree of being probable.
Example
“In all likelihood the meeting will be cancelled.”
Other meanings
The probability that some fixed outcome was generated by a random distribution with a specific parameter.
Likeness, resemblance.
Synonyms
- odds
Related words
- dislikelihood
- loglikelihood
- pseudolikelihood
- quasilikelihood
- in all likelihood
- Whittle likelihood
Word history
From Middle English "liklihode".
Where this comes from
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