likelihood

Preposition: of

• confusion: Do search results lead to a likelihood of confusion?
• re-offending: The report notes that recent research has found that programs for offenders with drinking problems can reduce the likelihood of re-offending.
• happening: The likelihood of this happening outside three kilometer protection zones is very low.
• occurrence: The output of the risk analysis is an assessment of the likelihood of occurrence for each possible outcome.
• harm: The risk is the likelihood of the harm arising from the hazard.
• relapse: Reduce the likelihood of relapse by teaching problem-solving techniques.

Converse of object

• lessen: Bonds rose on sentiment that economic indicators might lessen the likelihood of central bankers cutting rates early next year.
• reduce: The skirt may also reduce the likelihood of trapped little fingers!
• predict: All a doctor can do is predict the likelihood of success.
• minimize: What we can and must do is take every reasonable step to minimize the likelihood of audit failure.
• decrease: Does the absence of clarity increase or decrease the likelihood of voting at all?
• increase: Alcohol also relaxes the muscles in the back of your mouth, increasing the likelihood of snoring.

Adjective modifier

• increased: Effects Jim Lively Insurance whether arrived an increased likelihood.
• Gaussian: The approach is based on a stopping time argument that produces a normalizing transformation facilitating the use of a Gaussian likelihood.
• maximum: Suitable data have been fitted to the risk model using the method of maximum likelihood.
• simulated: We estimate the structural model with individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and use simulated maximum likelihood.
• less: In India, they could work with less likelihood of discovery.

Modifies a noun

• estimator: For linear and Gaussian state space models a maximum likelihood estimator based on the Kalman filter can always be derived.
• estimation: J-F Cardoso showed that the information maximization method presented in the latter paper is equivalent to standard maximum likelihood estimation.
• ratio: We report equal error rates on the PolyVar database that are 34 % lower than a baseline Gaussian mixture model likelihood ratio approach.