English-Italian translations for likelihood

• verosimiglianza
• probabilità
  Detto questo, la probabilità che si verifichi è opinabile. That being said, the likelihood of it happening is open to question.
  Nei paesi industrializzati vi sono probabilità notevolmente inferiori che ciò accada. In industrialised countries there is considerably less likelihood of this happening.
  Lo stile di vita e i fattori genetici possono apparentemente incidere sulla probabilità di ammalarsi di cancro al seno. Lifestyle, as well as genetics, can apparently affect the likelihood of getting breast cancer.
• verisimiglianza

Definition of likelihood

• The probability of a specified outcome; the chance of something happening; probability; the state or degree of being probable
• The probability that some fixed outcome was generated by a random distribution with a specific parameter
• Appearance, show, sign, expression

Examples

• In all likelihood the meeting will be cancelled.
• The likelihood is that the inflation rate will continue to rise.
• "There is no likelihood between pure light and black darkness, or between righteousness and reprobation." (Sir W. Raleigh)
• "What of his heart perceive you in his face by any likelihood he showed to-day ?" (Shak)

Related words

• unlikelihood
• likelihood function
• likelihood of hitting
• in all likelihood
• maximum likelihood estimator
• maximum likelihood estimation