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.

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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

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Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment [E]
Investigative Techniques [E05]
Epidemiologic Methods [E05.318]
Statistics as Topic [E05.318.740]
Models, Statistical [E05.318.740.500]
Likelihood Functions [E05.318.740.500.475]
Probability [E05.318.740.600]
Likelihood Functions [E05.318.740.600.400]
Models, Theoretical [E05.599]
Models, Statistical [E05.599.835]
Likelihood Functions [E05.599.835.500]
Health Care [N]
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [N05]
Quality of Health Care [N05.715]
Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms [N05.715.360]
Statistics as Topic [N05.715.360.750]
Models, Statistical [N05.715.360.750.530]
Likelihood Functions [N05.715.360.750.530.450]
Probability [N05.715.360.750.625]
Likelihood Functions [N05.715.360.750.625.450]
Environment and Public Health [N06]
Public Health [N06.850]
Epidemiologic Methods [N06.850.520]
Statistics as Topic [N06.850.520.830]
Models, Statistical [N06.850.520.830.500]
Likelihood Functions [N06.850.520.830.500.475]
Probability [N06.850.520.830.600]
Likelihood Functions [N06.850.520.830.600.400]

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2003	0	1	1
2004	0	2	2
2005	0	4	4
2007	0	5	5
2008	0	2	2
2009	0	3	3
2010	0	8	8
2011	1	6	7
2012	0	6	6
2013	0	2	2
2014	0	5	5
2015	0	2	2
2016	1	4	5
2018	0	5	5
2022	0	1	1
2025	0	1	1

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Shaw CA, Williams CJ, Tan T, Illera D, Di N, Shulman JM, Belmont JW. The Causal Pivot: A structural approach to genetic heterogeneity and variant discovery in complex diseases. Am J Hum Genet. 2025 Sep 04; 112(9):2232-2246.

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Pintos Lobo R, Bottenhorn KL, Riedel MC, Toma AI, Hare MM, Smith DD, Moor AC, Cowan IK, Valdes JA, Bartley JE, Salo T, Boeving ER, Pankey B, Sutherland MT, Musser ED, Laird AR. Neural systems underlying RDoC social constructs: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2023 01; 144:104971.

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Engelbrecht HM, Branch WR, Greenbaum E, Alexander GJ, Jackson K, Burger M, Conradie W, Kusamba C, Zassi-Boulou AG, Tolley KA. Diversifying into the branches: Species boundaries in African green and bush snakes, Philothamnus (Serpentes: Colubridae). Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2019 01; 130:357-365.

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Qasim M, Baohua W, Zou H, Lin Y, Dash CK, Bamisile BS, Hussain M, Zhiwen Z, Wang L. Phylogenetic relationship and genetic diversity of citrus psyllid populations from China and Pakistan and their associated Candidatus bacterium. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2018 09; 126:173-180.

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Lara GAG, Z??iga JO, P?rez OC, Sol?s SH, Jim?nez CEP, M?ndez MC. Predictors of suicidal ideation and depressive symptoms among adolescents in Chiapas, Mexico. Cien Saude Colet. 2018 Apr; 23(4):1089-1096.

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Portillo F, Branch WR, Conradie W, R?del MO, Penner J, Barej MF, Kusamba C, Muninga WM, Aristote MM, Bauer AM, Trape JF, Nagy ZT, Carlino P, Pauwels OSG, Menegon M, Burger M, Mazuch T, Jackson K, Hughes DF, Behangana M, Zassi-Boulou AG, Greenbaum E. Phylogeny and biogeography of the African burrowing snake subfamily Aparallactinae (Squamata: Lamprophiidae). Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2018 10; 127:288-303.

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Jeong HH, Yalamanchili HK, Guo C, Shulman JM, Liu Z. An ultra-fast and scalable quantification pipeline for transposable elements from next generation sequencing data. Pac Symp Biocomput. 2018; 23:168-179.

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Ching T, Garmire LX. Pan-cancer analysis of expressed somatic nucleotide variants in long intergenic non-coding RNA. Pac Symp Biocomput. 2018; 23:512-523.

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Gu SH, Arai S, Yu HT, Lim BK, Kang HJ, Yanagihara R. Genetic variants of Cao Bang hantavirus in the Chinese mole shrew (Anourosorex squamipes) and Taiwanese mole shrew (Anourosorex yamashinai). Infect Genet Evol. 2016 06; 40:113-118.

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Taylor A, V?g?ny V, Jackson AC, Harrison RJ, Rainoni A, Clarkson JP. Identification of pathogenicity-related genes in Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cepae. Mol Plant Pathol. 2016 09; 17(7):1032-47.

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