Timeline for Wikipedia entry on likelihood seems ambiguous
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| Jul 19, 2016 at 23:27 | answer | added | Michael Hardy | timeline score: 8 | |
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| Jul 19, 2016 at 12:05 | history | edited | Tim |
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| Jul 18, 2016 at 23:49 | answer | added | amoeba | timeline score: 30 | |
| Jul 18, 2016 at 22:10 | comment | added | whuber♦ | When $\theta$ is a random variate (that is, a value considered to arise from random variable $\Theta$), nothing in the definition of likelihood changes. It's still a likelihood. Logically, this is no different than saying that a blue butterfly is still a butterfly. Technically, it raises issues about the joint distribution of $\Theta$ and $x$. Evidently this joint distribution must be well defined and enjoy certain "regularity conditions" before you may identify the likelihood with a conditional probability. | |
| Jul 18, 2016 at 21:37 | comment | added | Creatron | @whuber Thanks - I have updated my question (under "Edit"), re-consolidating the question based on this new knowledge. I think the only remaining ambiguity in my mind is the last point on reconciling what has been said with the term in Bayes rule... | |
| Jul 18, 2016 at 21:36 | history | edited | Creatron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 18, 2016 at 20:15 | comment | added | whuber♦ | Some people do indeed use such a typographic convention with semicolons. There are many, many conventions: subscripts, superscripts, etc. You often have to figure out what somebody means from the context or their text descriptions of what they are doing. | |
| Jul 18, 2016 at 19:55 | comment | added | Creatron | @whuber Ok, so am I to then understand that in this context, $P(x|\theta)$ is read (in English) as "The probability of X=x, parameterized on param= $\theta$"? If that is indeed that case, why isn't then simply written as $P(X=x; param= \theta)$? I ask not to be pedantic, but to simply arm me for further understanding in my studies. Thank you. | |
| Jul 18, 2016 at 19:31 | history | edited | amoeba | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 18, 2016 at 19:27 | history | edited | Creatron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 18, 2016 at 14:49 | comment | added | whuber♦ | "Given that" does not always mean conditional probability. Sometimes this phrase is merely an attempt to indicate what symbols are intended to be fixed in a calculation or conceptually. | |
| Jul 18, 2016 at 11:38 | answer | added | Tim | timeline score: 20 | |
| Jul 18, 2016 at 9:51 | history | edited | Tim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 18, 2016 at 9:45 | history | edited | Tim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 17, 2016 at 19:47 | comment | added | Creatron | @Tim Excellent link thanks! Unfortunately I am still unclear as to the specific questions I have vis-a-vis Likelihood and the conditional probability (?) that it seems to conjures. On this, I am still unclear. :-/ | |
| Jul 16, 2016 at 7:24 | comment | added | Tim | You already got two nice answers but check also stats.stackexchange.com/q/112451/35989 | |
| Jul 16, 2016 at 1:08 | answer | added | Michael Lew | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jul 15, 2016 at 23:51 | answer | added | Alex R. | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 15, 2016 at 23:44 | history | asked | Creatron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |