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Variance of the $\hat{\sigma}^2$ of a Maximum Likelihood estimator
Given some normally distributed observations $x_1,x_2,...,x_n$
$\forall i\ x_i\sim\mathcal{N}(\mu, \sigma^2)$
the ML estimator decides that the variance that maximizes the likelihood function is (see ...
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