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Lecture Notes (with exercises) for Basic Probability course at University of Amsterdam
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MAP derivation #21

Closed philschulz closed 8 years ago

philschulz commented 9 years ago

I went over the derivation of MAP-MLE equivalence again and found my conceptual mistake. We are actually not computing the posterior probability over the parameters but the posterior density. Contrary to the probability, the density is not 0 in every point. Then you can indeed simply use Bayes rule and throw out P(\theta) because it is constant (where in this case P(\theta) is a density and not a probability).