Collocations withlikelihood
These are words often used in combination withlikelihood.
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greatest likelihood
Ideally, a programme would promote the method or methods with the greatest likelihood of success but family planning involves considerations that are personal and social as well as biological.
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great likelihood
I do not see any great likelihood of three men with their amount of knowledge and experience behind them doing otherwise.
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high likelihood
Those forms with a high likelihood of being recalled by most speakers will not be very susceptible to analogical pressure.
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increased likelihood
Thus, as noted above, there is an increased likelihood that the adult's identification of the child's emotions will be inaccurate where the parent is insecure.
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likelihood method
To use all data, analyses were performed on raw data using the raw likelihood method.
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likelihood of conflict
Doing this would significantly reduce miscalculation and the likelihood of conflict.
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likelihood of confusion
However, it has another effect and intention: to reduce the likelihood of confusion at elections when candidates try to use confusing party names.
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likelihood of failure
The injectables maintained a low likelihood of failure regardless of the duration of use.
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likelihood of harm
Information available centrally relates to the number of children placed on a child protection register because of a concern about harm or likelihood of harm.
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likelihood of occurrence
Characteristically, variationists handle these data quantitatively, specifying distributional constraints in terms of a greater or lesser likelihood of occurrence rather than as categorical.
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likelihood of success
Certainly, organization of behavior would greatly increase the likelihood of success.
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likelihood of survival
Instead, they focus exclusively on the medical factors of urgency of need and the likelihood of survival.
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likelihood ratio
The likelihood ratio test rejects these models at the 0.5% significance level. 10.
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maximum likelihood
This produces full information maximum likelihood estimates.
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maximum likelihood estimation
Some methodological implications of our study are discussed, such as the bias introduced by the non-negativity constraint in restricted maximum likelihood estimation of variance components.
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reasonable likelihood
Although our two gradients are not true 'replicates' of each other, patterns which emerge for both of them have a reasonable likelihood of revealing general features.
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strong likelihood
There is a strong likelihood that this process may occur more often in girls than boys as they are growing up.
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