Likelihood function

Likelihood function - joint probability evaluated at a sample. Article “Likelihood function” in English Wikipedia has 52.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 85 references and 27 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 17.56 points.

This article has the best quality in Ukrainian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2026 the article “Likelihood function” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Likelihood function”, its content was written by 245 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 570 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 759 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1964 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5372 in March 2019
• Global: #6447 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #18218 in April 2015
• Global: #29299 in December 2018

There are 24 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Ukrainian (uk) Функція правдоподібності		57.4042
2	English (en) Likelihood function		52.6854
3	Galician (gl) Función de verosimilitude		43.2585
4	German (de) Likelihood-Funktion		35.5025
5	Polish (pl) Funkcja wiarygodności		31.1592
6	Slovenian (sl) Verjetnostna funkcija		29.3912
7	Norwegian (no) Rimelighetsfunksjon		23.5517
8	Persian (fa) تابع درست‌نمایی		22.9896
9	Portuguese (pt) Função de verossimilhança		22.8724
10	Arabic (ar) دالة الإمكان		22.2643

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Likelihood function" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Likelihood function		6 158 369
2	Japanese (ja) 尤度関数		780 041
3	German (de) Likelihood-Funktion		477 783
4	Chinese (zh) 似然函数		415 551
5	Russian (ru) Функция правдоподобия		327 974
6	French (fr) Fonction de vraisemblance		275 757
7	Spanish (es) Función de verosimilitud		244 063
8	Italian (it) Funzione di verosimiglianza		201 741
9	Korean (ko) 가능도		96 288
10	Persian (fa) تابع درست‌نمایی		33 118

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Likelihood function" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Likelihood function		10 632
2	Japanese (ja) 尤度関数		1 197
3	French (fr) Fonction de vraisemblance		1 017
4	German (de) Likelihood-Funktion		994
5	Russian (ru) Функция правдоподобия		724
6	Chinese (zh) 似然函数		622
7	Italian (it) Funzione di verosimiglianza		348
8	Spanish (es) Función de verosimilitud		302
9	Polish (pl) Funkcja wiarygodności		249
10	Korean (ko) 가능도		121

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Likelihood function" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Likelihood function		245
2	French (fr) Fonction de vraisemblance		45
3	German (de) Likelihood-Funktion		38
4	Italian (it) Funzione di verosimiglianza		38
5	Russian (ru) Функция правдоподобия		31
6	Japanese (ja) 尤度関数		26
7	Chinese (zh) 似然函数		19
8	Dutch (nl) Aannemelijkheidsfunctie		18
9	Hebrew (he) פונקציית נראות		16
10	Ukrainian (uk) Функція правдоподібності		16

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Likelihood function" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) دالة الإمكان		1
2	English (en) Likelihood function		1
3	Polish (pl) Funkcja wiarygodności		1
4	Ukrainian (uk) Функція правдоподібності		1
5	Bulgarian (bg) Функция на правдоподобие		0
6	Catalan (ca) Funció de versemblança		0
7	German (de) Likelihood-Funktion		0
8	Spanish (es) Función de verosimilitud		0
9	Persian (fa) تابع درست‌نمایی		0
10	French (fr) Fonction de vraisemblance		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Likelihood function" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Likelihood function		759
2	Ukrainian (uk) Функція правдоподібності		273
3	Japanese (ja) 尤度関数		266
4	Korean (ko) 가능도		122
5	Norwegian (no) Rimelighetsfunksjon		61
6	German (de) Likelihood-Funktion		60
7	French (fr) Fonction de vraisemblance		52
8	Russian (ru) Функция правдоподобия		51
9	Spanish (es) Función de verosimilitud		50
10	Chinese (zh) 似然函数		43

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic دالة الإمكان
bg	Bulgarian Функция на правдоподобие
ca	Catalan Funció de versemblança
de	German Likelihood-Funktion
en	English Likelihood function
es	Spanish Función de verosimilitud
fa	Persian تابع درست‌نمایی
fr	French Fonction de vraisemblance
gl	Galician Función de verosimilitude
he	Hebrew פונקציית נראות
it	Italian Funzione di verosimiglianza
ja	Japanese 尤度関数
ko	Korean 가능도
lt	Lithuanian Tikėtinumo funkcija
nl	Dutch Aannemelijkheidsfunctie
no	Norwegian Rimelighetsfunksjon
pl	Polish Funkcja wiarygodności
pt	Portuguese Função de verossimilhança
ru	Russian Функция правдоподобия
sl	Slovenian Verjetnostna funkcija
ta	Tamil நிகழ்வியல்வு
th	Thai ฟังก์ชันภาวะน่าจะเป็น
uk	Ukrainian Функція правдоподібності
zh	Chinese 似然函数

Best Rank

English: #18218 04.2015

Global: #29299 12.2018

Best Rank

English: #5372 03.2019

Global: #6447 03.2002

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