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Maximum likelihood estimation in a Poisson model for football (soccer) scores

I've got a set of football results and I want to make a probabilty model of football scores as described in Dixon, Coles (1997, http://www.math.ku.dk/~rolf/teaching/thesis/DixonColes.pdf). They ...
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Learning parameters of a mixture of Gaussian using MLE

It seems that MLE (via EM) is widely used in machine learning / statistics to learn the parameters of a mixture of Gaussians. I'm assuming we're given random samples from the mixture. My question ...