Positive Likelihood Ratio

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

    “The oaks, how subtle and marine!
    Bearded, and all the layered light
    Above them swims; and thus the scene,
    Recessed, awaits the positive night.”
    —Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)

    “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)