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<p>are often transformed to the log scale, and the corresponding <a href="page.php?w=log-likelihood">log-likelihood</a> can be interpreted as the degree to which an event supports a <a href="page.php?w=statistical_model">statistical model</a>. The log probability is widely used in implementations of computations with probability, and is studied as a concept in its own right in some applications of information theory, such as <a href="page.php?w=natural_language_processing">natural language processing</a>.</p>

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