stephens999 / fiveMinuteStats

A repo of short "vignettes" illustrating statistical concepts
http://stephens999.github.io/fiveMinuteStats
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vignette on "maximum likelihood estimation works" #28

Open stephens999 opened 7 years ago

stephens999 commented 7 years ago

the idea here would be to give a qualitative summary of the two vignettes on Wilks theorem and normality of mle.

In short these results say "mle works".

I find students often don't appreciate this. Especially useful when devising complex inference schemes under complex models... to check coding etc. Would be good to give examples of this.