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Words related to likelihood
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appetitive behavior
activity that increases the likelihood of satisfying a specific need, as restless searching for food by a hungry predator (distinguished from consummatory behavior). -
contingency
A contingency is something that might happen in the future. -
maximum likelihood estimation
a method of estimating population characteristics from a sample by choosing the values of the parameters that will maximize the probability of getting the particular sample actually obtained from the population. -
possibility
the state or fact of being possible: the possibility of error. -
probability
the quality or fact of being probable. -
z score
Statistics. a measure that quantifies the distance a data point is from the mean of a data set.