Likelihood notation

https://arbital.com/p/likelihood_notation

by Nate Soares Jul 4 2016 updated Jul 7 2016


The likelihood of a piece of evidence e according to a hypothesis H, known as "the likelihood of e given H", is often written either Le(H) or L(He). The latter notation is confusing, because then L(He)=P(eH). Many students of statistics find it hard enough to keep the difference between P(He) and P(eH) straight in their heads if we don't occasionally swap the order of the arguments when talking about similar functions, so on Arbital, we much prefer the notation Le(H)=P(eH).

[fixme: Make this a child of 'likelihood' when 'likelihood' exists.]