So, that is, in a nutshell, the idea behind the method of maximum likelihood estimation. But how would we implement the method in practice? Well, suppose we have a random sample X 1, X 2, ⋯, X n for which the probability density (or mass) function of each X i is f (x i; θ). More @Wikipedia
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