
Ep. 267 - Bernoulli's Fallacy with Aubrey Clayton
The Local Maximum with Max Sklar
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The Maximum Probability Estimation in Machine Learning
If we're doing some kind of a statistical problem this often is this method or we're trying to find like the maximum likelihood. So you have to, I think be a little bit careful to distinguish between what you're at and different ways of actually stating what you're doing. The maximum likelihood methods again another brain child of Ronald Fisher. In the 20th century, basically say find the hypothesis or the parameter value or whatever is appropriate for that setting.
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