Positive Likelihood Ratio

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

“I have always had something to live besides a personal life. And I suspected very early that to live merely in an experience of, in an expression of, in a positive delight in the human cliches could be no business of mine.”
—Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)

“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)