5. Maximum Likelihood Estimation (cont.)

MIT 18.650 Statistics for Applications, Fall 2016
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Instructor: Philippe Rigollet

In this lecture, Prof. Rigollet talked about maximizing/minimizing functions, likelihood, discrete cases, continuous cases, and maximum likelihood estimators.

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