ALL meanings of maximum likelihood
max·i·mum like·li·hood
M m - noun maximum likelihood greatest probability 1
- noun maximum likelihood the probability of randomly drawing a given sample from a population maximized over the possible values of the population parameters 0
- noun maximum likelihood the non-Bayesian rule that, given an experimental observation, one should utilize as point estimates of parameters of a distribution those values which give the highest conditional probability to that observation, irrespective of the prior probability assigned to the parameters 0