On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Mario Levitin <[email protected]>wrote:
> I'm trying to give it a probabilistic interpretation in order to understand > the logic behind. Any probabilistic interpretation should define random > variables, events, etc. However, my attempts in this respect have been > unsuccessful. > Mario, Good to see you here. Have you read my original paper on the topic of LLR? It explains the connection with chi^2 measures of association. The paper can be found here: http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/J/J93/J93-1003.pdf It is very short and fairly understandable. Modern implementations are simpler than the formulae in the paper, but the narrative should be pretty clear. If you have (or once you have) read that paper, could you say why that description doesn't meet your needs for a probabilistic interpretation? If so, I would imagine I or others will be able to help further.
