Maximum likelihood

Slides for “Maximum Likelihood Estimation”

Slides for “Maximum Likelihood Estimator of mu”

Slides for “Maximum Likelihood Estimator for Bernoulli distribution”

Control questions

  1. What is the likelihood?
  2. Why do we use the log-likelihood?
  3. What are the assumptions for MLE?
  4. What is the Maximum Likelihood Estimator of the mean in a normal distribution?
  5. What is the Maximum Likelihood Estimator of the success probability in a Bernoulli distribution?