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)

    It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honour, and fictitious benevolence.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)