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Properties of
Maximum Likelihood Estimates

Maximum likelihood estimates have a wealth of useful properties. I'll just list a few:

  • They are consistent, meaning that for large $ n$, they converge to the parameters that they estimate.
  • They are asymptotically efficient, that is, for large $ n$, they have minimal variance.



Frank Starmer 2004-05-19
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