Likelihood Functions D016013

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Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques, and Equipment [E] » Investigative Techniques [E05] » Epidemiologic Methods » Statistics as Topic » Models, Statistical » Likelihood Functions

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques, and Equipment [E] » Investigative Techniques [E05] » Epidemiologic Methods » Statistics as Topic » Probability » Likelihood Functions

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques, and Equipment [E] » Investigative Techniques [E05] » Models, Theoretical » Models, Statistical » Likelihood Functions

Health Care [N] » Environment and Public Health [N06] » Public Health » Epidemiologic Methods » Statistics as Topic » Probability » Likelihood Functions

Description

Functions constructed from a statistical model and a set of observed data which give the probability of that data for various values of the unknown model parameters. Those parameter values that maximize the probability are the maximum likelihood estimates of the parameters.   MeSH

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