Likelihood Flashcards
1
Q
What is the inference problem?
A
The parameters are unknown and have to be estimated from the data
—> Likelihood function as the vehicle and link between the model and the data
2
Q
What is likelihood?
A
the joint distribution of the observations given the parameters.
3
Q
Why do we use the log-likelihood?
A
Because the transformation of a product into a sum is xomputationally asvantageous.
