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jmcohen on March 28, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Han Solo and Bayesian Priors

"Likelihood" can refer to both p(param|data) and p(data|param). See [1] for an example of the first, and [2] for the second.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likelihood_function

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem#Events

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