MLE for Common Distributions

Inference, estimation, and decision-making from data

The MLE recipe is always the same: write the log-likelihood, take its derivative with respect to the parameter, set it to zero, solve. For the two distributions you'll meet most, the answer is beautifully simple: it's just a sample average.

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