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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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Interpretation of Maximum likelihood estimation

I have a problem interpreting the result of performing maximum likelihood estimation. The log likelihood function is: $\sum^{n}_{i=1}\log\left( \phi\left( \frac{w-\mu}{\sigma}\right)\right) -\log(\si …
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Package ‘fitdistrplus’

I am trying to use the package ‘fitdistrplus’ in R to fit one non standard distribution to my data set. I am trying to copy the methods the package creators used in their tutorial for specifying a Gum …
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