Probability and likelihood learned from On-Base Percentage

The previous post was dealt with likelihood . Let’s take a look at some interesting examples introduced in “Major League Baseball statistics”. (Book in Korean) The R markdown can be found in Github  and this post is quoted partially from chapter 4 in the book mentioned above.   1. The probability that goes on the base twice …

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Likelihood

likelihood ? It’s very confusing concept to me, very difficult to understand at a glance. I’ve looked for the definition from Wikipedia and sought some blogs which explained about it. First of all I’ve referred sw4r  ‘s blog which contained huge amount of numerical statistics. And I found the definition of ‘Likelihood’ in Wikipedia which was really …

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