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Enter Mr. Bayes for Conditional Probablities---II
Equation (14) is the essence of the maximum likelihood principle.
Equation (14) converts the likelihood
which is a function or probability of
for fixed
into
which is the desired probability distribution of
for given measurements
and prejudices
T
.
Geoffrey Fox
,
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center
at Syracuse University,
gcf@npac.syr.edu
which is a function or probability of 
for fixed
into 
which is
the desired probability distribution of 
for given measurements
and prejudices T.