likelihoods
- 1Plural of likelihood.
Forecasters assigned different likelihoods to each possible storm track.
The report ranked several outcomes by their estimated likelihoods.
Note
The plural only makes sense where likelihood is counted. As a word for chance, the noun is often uncountable (the likelihood of rain). The plural appears when separate chances are set side by side, as in a forecast or a ranking of hypotheses. Statistics gives it a natural home: each candidate parameter has its own likelihood for the same observed outcome, so comparing parameters means comparing likelihoods.
likelihoods is a form of likelihood
likelihood, noun: The chance that a particular outcome will occur; the degree to which something is probable. Full entry
- Forms
- likelihoodlikelihoods plural
- Spelling
- likelihood → likelihoods: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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