Maximum Likelihood Estimation

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

    “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)

    “No man ever stood lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)