TD Wiki programming:math https://wiki.visrc.com/ 2026-05-07T15:56:08+00:00 TD Wiki https://wiki.visrc.com/ https://wiki.visrc.com/lib/tpl/monobook/images/favicon.ico text/html 2025-02-20T14:56:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) programming:math:statistics https://wiki.visrc.com/doku.php?id=programming:math:statistics&rev=1740059760&do=diff Math note: Statistics Maximum likelihood estimation * <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_likelihood_estimation> In statistics, maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) is a method of estimating the parameters of a statistical model, given observations. The method obtains the parameter estimates by finding the parameter values that maximize the likelihood function. The estimates are called maximum likelihood estimates, which is also abbreviated as MLE.