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Maximum Likelihood Estimation

Maximum Likelihood Estimation is a statistical inference method that estimates model parameters by maximizing the likelihood function, distinguishing it from other estimation techniques through its foundation on the probability of observing the given data under a specified statistical model.

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Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using <b>lme4</b>

Douglas M. Bates, Martin Mächler, Benjamin M. Bolker et al. · Journal of Statistical Software · 2015 · 85.6K citations · Full text

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Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso

Robert Tibshirani · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) · 1996 · 51.8K citations

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A new look at the statistical model identification

Hirotugu Akaike · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control · 1974 · 50.7K citations · Full text

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Maximum Likelihood from Incomplete Data Via the <i>EM</i> Algorithm

A. P. Dempster, N. M. Laird, Donald B. Rubin · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) · 1977 · 49.7K citations

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An Algorithm for Least-Squares Estimation of Nonlinear Parameters

Donald W. Marquardt · Journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · 1963 · 30.4K citations

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  1. GM
    Gauss M. Cordeiro

    Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

    127 publications · 7.7K citations

    45

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  2. NB
    N. Balakrishnan

    McMaster University, Canada

    121 publications · 6K citations

    42

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  3. PS
    Petre Stoica

    Uppsala University, Sweden

    70 publications · 11.2K citations

    38

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  4. HM
    Haitham M. Yousof

    Benha University, Egypt

    76 publications · 3.3K citations

    37

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  5. DK
    Debasis Kundu

    Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

    73 publications · 5.6K citations

    34

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  1. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    86 h-index

    405 publications

    126.2K citations

  2. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    83 h-index

    397 publications

    65.8K citations

  3. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    71 h-index

    251 publications

    42K citations

  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    67 h-index

    281 publications

    29.3K citations

  5. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    64 h-index

    335 publications

    33.8K citations

  6. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    64 h-index

    240 publications

    28.4K citations

  7. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    64 h-index

    267 publications

    115.6K citations

  8. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    62 h-index

    243 publications

    36.3K citations

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  1. Journal of the American Statistical Association

    944 publications · 170.4K citations

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  2. The Annals of Statistics

    696 publications · 99.8K citations

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  3. Biometrika

    562 publications · 69K citations

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  5. Econometrica

    225 publications · 97.8K citations

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