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Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Gaussian Chain Graph Models under the Alternative Markov Property

The Andersson-Madigan-Perlman (AMP) Markov property is a recently proposed alternative Markov property (AMP) for chain graphs. In the case of continuous variables with a joint multivariate Gaussian ...
Nature

Bayesian Estimation and Maximum Likelihood Methods

Bayesian estimation and maximum likelihood methods represent two central paradigms in modern statistical inference. Bayesian estimation incorporates prior beliefs through Bayes’ theorem, updating ...
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Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Population Size Based on the Counting Distribution

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 54, No. 4 (2005), pp. 721-737 (17 pages) The paper discusses the estimation of an unknown population size n. Suppose that ...
Simon Fraser University

Parameter Estimation

Maximum likelihood estimation of the parameters of a statistical model involves maximizing the likelihood or, equivalently, the log likelihood with respect to the parameters. The parameter values at ...