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Quant Toolbox > 23. Maximum likelihood > General Formulation
General formulation
X random observable variables realized in a data set x
• fθ(x) is the likelihood of the data x, where fθ is the jointdistribution for the variables X
• If H are hidden or latent variables the likelihood reads
fθ (x) =
∫fθ(x,h)dh (23.3)
• The maximum likelihood parameters θ̂ maximize the likelihood
θ̂ ≡ argmaxθ∈Θ{fθ(x)} (23.4)
Equivalently, they minimize the surprise − ln fθ(x).
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