Likelihood Functions

Famous quotes containing the words likelihood and/or functions:

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

    Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions of human society, but should be unconsciously performed, like the corresponding functions of the physical body.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)