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The lecturer states that once the data have been collected, they should be treated as constants because there is no more variability. This fixed-data perspective is what allows the likelihood to be discussed as a function of the parameter alone.

Conditions: The data have already been observed.; The discussion is in the inference stage rather than the sampling stage.

The lecturer states that once the data have been collected, they should be treated as constants because there is no more variability. This fixed-data perspective is what allows the likelihood to be discussed as a function of the parameter alone.

Conditions: The data have already been observed.; The discussion is in the inference stage rather than the sampling stage.