 Likelihood Functions
"Likelihood Functions" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Functions constructed from a statistical model and a set of observed data which give the probability of that data for various values of the unknown model parameters. Those parameter values that maximize the probability are the maximum likelihood estimates of the parameters.
| Descriptor ID |
D016013
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.740.500.475 E05.318.740.600.400 E05.599.835.500 N05.715.360.750.530.450 N05.715.360.750.625.450 N06.850.520.830.500.475 N06.850.520.830.600.400
|
| Concept/Terms |
Likelihood Functions- Likelihood Functions
- Function, Likelihood
- Functions, Likelihood
- Likelihood Function
Maximum Likelihood Estimates- Maximum Likelihood Estimates
- Estimate, Maximum Likelihood
- Estimates, Maximum Likelihood
- Maximum Likelihood Estimate
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Likelihood Functions".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Likelihood Functions".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Likelihood Functions" by people in this website by year, and whether "Likelihood Functions" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1998 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 1999 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2000 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2001 | 0 | 8 | 8 | | 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2003 | 2 | 6 | 8 | | 2004 | 0 | 8 | 8 | | 2005 | 0 | 7 | 7 | | 2006 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2007 | 0 | 5 | 5 | | 2008 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2009 | 1 | 6 | 7 | | 2010 | 0 | 5 | 5 | | 2011 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2012 | 1 | 5 | 6 | | 2013 | 0 | 7 | 7 | | 2014 | 0 | 6 | 6 | | 2015 | 0 | 7 | 7 | | 2016 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2017 | 2 | 7 | 9 | | 2018 | 1 | 5 | 6 | | 2019 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2020 | 0 | 4 | 4 | | 2021 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2024 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2026 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
To return to the timeline, click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Likelihood Functions" by people in Profiles.
-
Goryachok M, Liu J, Benjamin T, Fischer BG, Lai AR, Levy KL, Wogu AF, Evans AT, Baduashvili A. A Randomized Trial of Interval Likelihood Ratios for Clinical Decision-Making. NEJM Evid. 2026 Jul; 5(7):EVIDoa2500249.
-
Suresh K, Zhang W, Rice JD. A bounded hazard ratio Cox model for the effect of time to treatment on mortality. Stat Methods Med Res. 2026 Jul; 35(7):1518-1533.
-
Weyer E, Theodosopoulos AN, Palinauskas V, Bensch S, Westerdahl H, Duc M, Ciloglu A, Huang X, Kim KS, Tsuda Y, Atkinson CT, Zehtindjiev P, Fleischer RC, VanTassel NM, Taylor SA, Hellgren O, Ellis VA. Phylogenomic analyses reveal introgression and cryptic speciation in the globally distributed, vector-transmitted pathogen Plasmodium relictum. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2026 Sep; 222:108642.
-
Parra RC, Garizoain G, Aranda CM, L Abbé E, Marques C, Gualdi-Russo E, Caldas I, Giannotti PS, Mansegosa D, Ubelaker DH, Rodríguez PA, Adserias-Garriga J, Pinto PHV, Moraitis K, Zorba E, Escalante-Flórez K, Mishra M, Condori LA, Bertrand B, Moyano GAR, Flores CH, Retana-Milán F, Rivera C, Peccerelli F, da Silva RHA, Baccino E, Luna LH. Refinement of the Bayesian probabilistic framework for forensic adult age-at-death estimation using dentin translucency in intact-single rooted teeth. Forensic Sci Int. 2026 Aug; 385:112964.
-
Rice JD, Kempe A. Approximate maximum likelihood estimation in cure models using aggregated data, with application to HPV vaccine completion. Stat Med. 2024 11 10; 43(25):4872-4886.
-
Schield DR, Brown CE, Shakya SB, Calabrese GM, Safran RJ, Sheldon FH. Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the swallow family (Hirundinidae) inferred from comparisons of thousands of UCE loci. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2024 Aug; 197:108111.
-
Deane KD, Van Hoovels L, Joy VE, Olschowka N, Bossuyt X. From autoantibody test results to decision making: Incorporating likelihood ratios within medical practice. Autoimmun Rev. 2024 May; 23(5):103537.
-
Border R, O'Rourke S, de Candia T, Goddard ME, Visscher PM, Yengo L, Jones M, Keller MC. Assortative mating biases marker-based heritability estimators. Nat Commun. 2022 02 03; 13(1):660.
-
Pruinelli L, Zhou J, Stai B, Schold JD, Pruett T, Ma S, Simon G. A likelihood-based convolution approach to estimate major health events in longitudinal health records data: an external validation study. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2021 08 13; 28(9):1885-1891.
-
Stumpf PK, Yorke ED, El Naqa I, Cuneo KC, Grimm J, Goodman KA. Modeling of Tumor Control Probability in Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Adrenal Tumors. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2021 05 01; 110(1):217-226.
|
People  People who have written about this concept. _
Similar Concepts
People who have written about this concept.
_
Top Journals
Top journals in which articles about this concept have been published.
|