Likelihood Ratio Test

Famous quotes containing the words likelihood, ratio and/or test:

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

“People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value—a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)