Maximum Likelihood Estimate

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

    “Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.”
    —Germaine Greer (b. 1939)

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

    “Let man consider what he is in comparison with all existence; let him regard himself as lost in this remote corner of nature; and from the little cell in which he finds himself lodged, I mean the universe, let him estimate at their true value the earth, kingdoms, cities, and himself. What is a man in the infinite?”
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)