Usually means: Probability of data given model.
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  1. likelihood: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. likelihood: Merriam-Webster
  3. likelihood: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. likelihood: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. likelihood: Collins English Dictionary
  6. likelihood: Vocabulary.com
  7. Likelihood, likelihood: Wordnik
  8. likelihood: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. likelihood: Wiktionary
  10. likelihood: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. likelihood: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. likelihood: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Likelihood, likelihood: Dictionary.com
  14. likelihood: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Likelihood: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Likelihood: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. likelihood: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. likelihood: Rhymezone
  19. likelihood: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. likelihood: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. likelihood: FreeDictionary.org
  22. likelihood: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. likelihood: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. likelihood: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. likelihood: Medical dictionary

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  1. likelihood: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Likelihood: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. likelihood: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (likelihood)

▸ 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.

Similar:
likeliness, odds, probability, likelyhood, unlikelihood, chance, possibility, unlikeliness, risk, potential, more...

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

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Similar:
likeliness, odds, probability, likelyhood, unlikelihood, chance, possibility, unlikeliness, risk, potential, more...

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, partial response maximum likelihood, maximum likelihood estimates, likelihood ratio test, more...

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

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



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