Maximum Likelihood -- from Wolfram MathWorld
mathworld.wolfram.com › MaximumLikelihoodMay 05, 2022 · Maximum likelihood, also called the maximum likelihood method, is the procedure of finding the value of one or more parameters for a given statistic which makes the known likelihood distribution a maximum. The maximum likelihood estimate for a parameter mu is denoted mu^^. For a Bernoulli distribution, d/(dtheta)[(N; Np)theta^(Np)(1-theta)^(Nq)]=Np(1-theta)-thetaNq=0, (1) so maximum likelihood ...