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Like a Prayer (album)
Like a Prayer is Madonna's fourth studio album, released March 21, 1989, produced with Patrick Leonard, featuring Prince and the Andraé Crouch Choir; it sold over 15 million copies and topped charts worldwide.
Like a Prayer (song)
Like a Prayer, Madonna song written with Patrick Leonard, released March 3, 1989 on Sire/Warner Bros. as lead single of the album; Prince on guitar; three weeks at No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100; Pepsi ad pulled after video controversy.
Like a Rolling Stone
"Like a Rolling Stone" is a 1965 Bob Dylan song released as the first single from Highway 61 Revisited, reaching No. 2 in the US.
Like a Virgin (album)
Like a Virgin is Madonna's second studio album, released November 12, 1984 on Sire Records, produced by Nile Rodgers at the Power Station. It gave Madonna her first #1 album and single and sold over 21 million copies.
Like a Virgin (song)
"Like a Virgin" (1984), Madonna single written by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, produced by Nile Rodgers at Power Station; six weeks at Billboard Hot 100 #1 from December 22, 1984, her first US chart-topper.
Like All Before You
Like All Before You is the third studio album by The Voidz, an American rock band led by Julian Casablancas. It was released in 2024 and features ten tracks.
Like Crazy
Like Crazy is a 2011 American romantic drama directed by Drake Doremus, starring Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones as college lovers separated by a visa ban.
Like Father
Like Father (2018) is a Netflix comedy-drama, Lauren Miller Rogen's directorial debut, starring Kristen Bell and Kelsey Grammer as an estranged father and daughter on a Caribbean honeymoon cruise; 48% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Like Father, Like Clown
Like Father, Like Clown (German: Der Vater eines Clowns) is a 1991 Simpsons season 3 episode in which Krusty, born Herschel Krustofsky, reconciles with Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky, voiced by former rabbi Jackie Mason, who won an Emmy for the role.
Like Father, Like Son (そして父になる)
Like Father, Like Son (そして父になる, Soshite Chichi ni Naru) is Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2013 Japanese drama about two couples whose sons were switched at birth, starring Masaharu Fukuyama; it won the 2013 Cannes Jury Prize and topped Japan's box office that year.
Like Flowers in Sand (모래에도 꽃이 핀다)
Like Flowers in Sand (모래에도 꽃이 핀다) is a 12-episode ENA South Korean drama, aired December 20, 2023 to January 31, 2024, directed by Kim Jin-woo and written by Won Yoo-jung, about faded ssireum wrestling prodigy Kim Baek-du (Jang Dong-yoon) reuniting with his first love Oh Yoo-kyung (Lee Ju-myoung), streamed on Netflix.
Like Him
Like Him is a 2024 piano-led ballad by Tyler, The Creator featuring Lola Young, track 12 on CHROMAKOPIA (Columbia). About his estranged father; peaked at #29 on the Billboard Hot 100, RIAA double Platinum, most-streamed Chromakopia track.
Like I Do (Ariana Grande song)
"Like I Do" (stylized "like i do") is an Ariana Grande song, ninth track on her 2026 album petal, written with Ilya Salmanzadeh; explicit R&B track that peaked at number 24 on the Hot 100 and 48 in the UK.
Like I'm Gonna Lose You
Like I'm Gonna Lose You, Meghan Trainor duet with John Legend from Title (2015), written with Caitlyn Smith and Justin Weaver; 4x Platinum US, 7x Platinum Canada, top-10 Billboard Hot 100 pop soul hit.
Like Jennie
like JENNIE (라이크 제니) is a 2:03 song by BLACKPINK's JENNIE from her 2025 debut solo album Ruby, produced by Diplo, blending baile funk and phonk, spread by a TikTok dance challenge to 200 million streams.
Like Mike
Like Mike is a 2002 American family sports fantasy comedy directed by John Schultz, starring Lil' Bow Wow as an orphan whose magic sneakers make him an NBA star.
Like Mike (musician)
Like Mike, born Michael Thivaios, is a Belgian DJ of Greek origin, one half of the EDM duo Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike with his brother.
Like Someone in Love (ライク・サムワン・イン・ラブ)
Like Someone in Love (ライク・サムワン・イン・ラブ) is Abbas Kiarostami's 2012 French-Japanese drama set in Tokyo, starring Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno, and Ryo Kase; it premiered in competition at Cannes 2012 and holds an 83% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Like That (Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar song)
"Like That" (2024) is a song by Future and Metro Boomin featuring Kendrick Lamar, the sixth track on We Don't Trust You; it debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100 and Lamar's verse ignited the 2024 Drake feud.
Like the Molave
Like the Molave is a 1940 patriotic poem by Filipino poet Rafael Zulueta da Costa, which won first prize for poetry at the 1940 Commonwealth Literary Awards.
Like Toy Soldiers
Like Toy Soldiers is a 2004 Eminem song from Encore, his second single from that album, sampling Martika's 1989 US number one Toy Soldiers; it calls for an end to his feuds with Ja Rule, Benzino, and Murder Inc and reached UK number 1 in February 2005.
Like Water for Chocolate (film)
Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate), 1992 Mexican romantic drama by Alfonso Arau from Laura Esquivel's novel, starring Lumi Cavazos; won 10 Ariel Awards and earned $14 million in the US, distinct from the 2024 HBO series.
Like You Know It All (잘 알지도 못하면서)
Like You Know It All (잘 알지도 못하면서, Jal Aljido Mothamyeonseo) is Hong Sang-soo's 2009 South Korean comedy-drama, his ninth feature, starring Kim Tae-woo as an art-film director at a Jecheon festival jury and lecturing on Jeju; premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight.
Likelihood function
The likelihood function describes how probable the observed data are under each candidate parameter value of a statistical model, and is central to maximum likelihood estimation and Bayesian inference.
Likelihood principle
The likelihood principle is a principle of statistical inference stating that the likelihood function fully captures the evidence in experimental data, independent of the experimental design.
Likelihood ratios in diagnostic testing
Likelihood ratios in diagnostic testing: LR+ = sensitivity/(1−specificity), LR− = (1−sensitivity)/specificity; they convert pretest odds to posttest odds via Bayes' theorem, are prevalence-independent, and guide rule-in and rule-out decisions.
Likelihood-free inference (statistics)
Likelihood-free inference is a family of simulation-based statistical methods, including approximate Bayesian computation (ABC), that estimate posterior distributions for models whose likelihood is intractable but whose data can be simulated.
Likelihood-ratio test
The likelihood-ratio test, also known as the LR test, is a statistical test comparing two nested models fitted by maximum likelihood, introduced by Neyman and Pearson in 1928.
Likelike
Princess Miriam Likelike (1851–1887), Hawaiian royal of the House of Kalākaua, sister of King Kalākaua and Queen Liliʻuokalani, mother of Kaʻiulani, composer of "ʻĀinahau," and patron of Hawaiian music; distinct from the earlier chiefess Likelike, wife of Kalanimoku.
Likert scale
A Likert scale is a psychometric instrument measuring attitudes, introduced by Rensis Likert in 1932, with respondents rating statements from strong disagreement to strong agreement.