"likelihood is small" is a correct sentence in written English.
You can use it when referring to something that is not likely to happen. For example: "The likelihood that the earthquake will cause a tsunami is small."
People rank the second description higher than the first, even though, logically, its likelihood is smaller, because it requires two things to be true — that Linda is a bank teller and that Linda is an active feminist — rather than one.
The Baum-Welch algorithm terminates when the increase in log likelihood is smaller than some threshold.
The likelihood of an event reaches a peak relatively earlier in the placebo arm, and the apparent rebound in the likelihood is smaller.
The updates for the parameters are as follow: (8) At the end of each pair of E- and M-steps, we calculated the log likelihood and stop if the difference between the current and previous log likelihood divided by the current log likelihood is smaller than 10−5 (this stop criterion is chosen to ensure the EM algorithm terminates).
Lawyers said the likelihood was small that legal immigrants who applied for naturalization would have a criminal background because any record was a legal bar to becoming a citizen.
The increase in likelihood was small (approximately 5 for an extra 4 df) when the male and female genetic effects were modelled with a linear regression on weeks rather than a constant for each (Table 1) with almost all the increase due to females.
Finally, one iterates between the E and M step until the increment in log-likelihood is small.
Although both intestinal type and L-H status were independent prognostic factors in the multivariate analysis, the -2log likelihood was smaller in the L-H status model: the smaller the value of this statistic, the better the model.
