I continue to use them, however, because doing so affords me the opportunity to discuss the culture of science and how such likelihood estimates reflect the strength of the available evidence. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
Both were addressed through multi-level modelling, which controlled for pretest differences (and other potential confounders over time) and provided robust maximum likelihood estimates of missing data. (longwoods.com)
In case of continuous variables, we can replace choosing priors for the Bayesian inference by choosing the parameter that we use in the determination of the maximum likelihood estimate among parameters that have a unique monotonous functional dependence on each other. (judithcurry.com)