Positive Likelihood Ratio

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

    “I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pester’d the world ever convince me of the contrary.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    “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)