Probability vs. Likelihood ... MADE EASY!!!

What is the difference between a probability and a likelihood? Not much, it's just a shift of perspective!

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[joshstat]

Why does this reminds me of StatQuest?

[culturemanoftheages]

Great video! That part with the normal distribution at the end and juxtaposing x and mu as the different unknowns was super helpful.

[walterstevens]

I’ve had 7 statistics courses at the graduate level, and no one has ever explained what likelihood is.
Thank you.

[YadaBala]

finally find a easy understood explanation, thanks Brian

[sushantgarudkar]

I discovered this channel in youtube search and guess what it burnt all my frustration and I love the way to make people understand topic in this video!

[baddarhussain]

Clearly explained the complex concept.

[TheErgunPascu]

The clarity you provide--as in, what the zero or 1 on the x-axis of the normal distribution represent but more importantly what they don't represent, which has been a source of confusion (and a drag) for me, is now more clear and finally validates a hunch/H-sub-A I've held; too many terms in statistics which I've encountered have been near-tautologies and a gigantic obstacle for me. In my humble and quasi-researched opinion about learning, cognitive transfer, linguistics, and abstraction, I postulate that for a new subject, especially those often found as hardly intuitive (clearly as a function of many factors), require the most clarity and for me an exhaustive list of features and areas of overlap, as well as an explicit articulation of the areas or features an idea does not connect with. THANK YOU for the excellent presentation!

[afai]

Great video, thank you. I was often confused between probability and likelihood and would just move on to the next topic still not fully understanding the difference, the "multiple universes" idea is the key part for me which finally explains it! Thank you.

[speaketh]

Great video! I'm just curious: When you say "we don't know which universe we're in, " is this just another way of saying, "we don't know the probability distribution of the coin"?

[envahanime]

An Amazing video and explanation. All these other videos only said points on the probability density function are likelihood but it didn't make any sense to me. the way you explained it cleared everything.

[ifeanyianene]

By God what an absolutely amazing video.

[HD-nrim]

Amazing, if i got correctly its like In probability, we start with the whole and then delve into the details, but in likelyhood, we begin with the details and then move to the whole.

[djdedan]

Even if the coin is not fair the probabilities still adds up to one.

[markwatney]

The single word 'universe' made it all clear! Thank you for a neat perspective :)

[santiagodm]

Love your videos!!!
Recommend me good books in mathematical stats, please!

[ecarg]

At 5:06, in the yellow box said "It is NOT a likelihood in this context either" confused me.
When dealing with a single data point, the likelihood function is simply the probability density function (PDF) evaluated at that point. So, the likelihood of observing a specific value x from a normal distribution with mean μ and variance σ² is given by:
L(μ, σ² | x) = f(x; μ, σ²)

where f(x; μ, σ²) is the PDF of the normal distribution.
Therefore, for a single value, the likelihood and density value are equivalent.

[theo]

Great explanation! Naver really what is the difference between these two.

[Susan_]

As they had no wings the strangers could not fly away, and if they jumped down from such a height they would surely be killed.

[learning_with_irving]

Define "Fair coin" there is only two sides in a coin, are there universes where coins have 3 or more sides?

[oraz.]

Can you do coupling some time? I know it's important to the earth mover problem.