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An optimization algorithm often used for maximum-likelihood estimation in the presence of missing data.

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Why typically minimizing a cost instead of maximizing a reward?

You tagged this question with the tag "Maximum Likelihood". In maximum likelihood estimation you explicitly maximize an objective function (namely the likelihood). It just so happens that for an obser …
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