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1949 G. A. Barnard in Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. B. 11 116 There are great advantages in working in terms of odds rather than in terms of probabilities—and greater advantages still in working in terms of logarithms of odds... This suggested the adoption of log odds (or, as they are called below, lods) as the fundamental idea in the theory, in place of probabilities.

1955 Amer. Jrnl. Human Genetics 7 292 The scores in a sequential test are ‘lods’, or logarithms of the probability ratio... Tables 4–8 give the possible certain matings and the lod scores appropriate to them.

1974 Nature 7 June 595/2 The evidence can be evaluated in the conventional currency used in human linkage studies, the lod, or logarithm of the odds ratio.

1977 Lancet 24 Dec. 1311/1 The lod-score analysis for genetic linkage between HLA and C.A.H. for families 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 demonstrated that HLA and the C.A.H. trait are very closely linked.

1988 Nature 26 May 308/3 The publication of another paper in Nature which uses ‘Lod scores’ to describe the analysis of human linkage data prompts me to wonder whether it might not be an opportune moment for linkage workers to abandon their idiosyncratic statistical terminology so that others can better follow their analyses.

1990 Ann. Human Genetics 54 254 An average likelihood is meaningful, an average lod is not.