Probability and likelihood?
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What’s the difference between probability and likelihood?
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In non-technical parlance, ”likelihood” is usually a synonym for “probability”, but in statistical usage, there is a clear distinction in perspective: the number that is the probability of some observed outcomes given a set of parameter values is regarded as the likelihood of the set of parameter values given the observed outcomes.