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The region surrounds the maximum-likelihood estimate, and all points (parameter sets) within that region differ at most in log-likelihood by some fixed value. The χ 2 distribution given by Wilks' theorem converts the region's log-likelihood differences into the "confidence" that the population's "true" parameter set lies inside. The art of ...
Similarly, likelihoods are often transformed to the log scale, and the corresponding log-likelihood can be interpreted as the degree to which an event supports a statistical model. The log probability is widely used in implementations of computations with probability, and is studied as a concept in its own right in some applications of ...
Many common test statistics are tests for nested models and can be phrased as log-likelihood ratios or approximations thereof: e.g. the Z-test, the F-test, the G-test, and Pearson's chi-squared test; for an illustration with the one-sample t-test, see below.
We can derive the value of the G-test from the log-likelihood ratio test where the underlying model is a multinomial model. Suppose we had a sample x = ( x 1 , … , x m ) {\textstyle x=(x_{1},\ldots ,x_{m})} where each x i {\textstyle x_{i}} is the number of times that an object of type i {\textstyle i} was observed.
In statistics, the score (or informant [1]) is the gradient of the log-likelihood function with respect to the parameter vector. Evaluated at a particular value of the parameter vector, the score indicates the steepness of the log-likelihood function and thereby the sensitivity to infinitesimal changes to the parameter
The identification condition establishes that the log-likelihood has a unique global maximum. Compactness implies that the likelihood cannot approach the maximum value arbitrarily close at some other point (as demonstrated for example in the picture on the right). Compactness is only a sufficient condition and not a necessary condition.
In evidence-based medicine, likelihood ratios are used for assessing the value of performing a diagnostic test. They use the sensitivity and specificity of the test to determine whether a test result usefully changes the probability that a condition (such as a disease state) exists.
The log-likelihood of a normal variable is simply the log of its probability density function: = (). Since this is a scaled and shifted square of a standard normal variable, it is distributed as a scaled and shifted chi-squared variable.