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a method of estimating parameters of a statistical model by choosing the parameter value that optimizes the probability of observing the given sample.

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Variance of EM mean estimates in a simple mixture of two normals

Consider a mixture of two normal distributions: $ f(x) = p N(x|u_1, S_1) + (1-p) N(x|u_2, S_2) $ where N() is the normal pdf. $p$, $S_2$, and $S_2$ are known. The means are not. You can get the MLE …
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