
S4E02 Underachievers, Overachievers, & Maximum Likelihood Estimation
Quantitude
Aximum Probability - The Flipping of Things on Its Head
The crux of maximum likelihood is figuring out what would the population have to look like so that the observations we have in our hand have the maximum likelihood. The young r a fisher, ronald ronni, as i'm sure they called him, had this insight into how to think about things. That whole flipping of things on its head is at the core of aximum likelihood.
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