Maximum Likelihood Estimate

Famous quotes containing the words maximum, likelihood and/or estimate:

    I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity—it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one’s mind.
    Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

    What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?
    Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

    For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has enough to complete it?
    Bible: New Testament, Luke 14:28.