The ( two parameter ) Benini distribution density, probability distribution, quantile function and random number generator is implemented in the VGAM package for R, which also provides maximum likelihood estimation of the shape parameter.
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Vine researchers have developed algorithms for maximum likelihood estimation and simulation of vine copulas, finding truncated vines that summarize the dependence in the data, enumerating through vines, etc . Chapter 6 of summarizes these algorithms in pseudocode.
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Other Elo-flavor ratings such as the AGA, IGS, and DGS systems use maximum likelihood estimation to adjust ratings, so those systems are anchored by prior distributions rather than by attempting to ensure that the gain / loss of ratings is zero sum.
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When estimating other structural parameters ( e . g ., parameters of a utility function, instead of parameters of a known probability distribution ), appropriate probability distributions may not be known, and moment-based estimates may be preferred to maximum likelihood estimation.
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In turn, the Rasch model for dichotomous data ( Rasch, 1960 / 1980 ) is identical to the BTL model after the person parameter of the Rasch model has been eliminated, as is achieved through statistical conditioning during the process of Conditional Maximum Likelihood estimation.
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Deming regression is equivalent to the maximum likelihood estimation of an errors-in-variables model in which the errors for the two variables are assumed to be independent and normally distributed, and the ratio of their variances, denoted " ? ", is known.
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Early Cowles Commission work on simultaneous equations estimation centered on Koopman and Hood s ( 1953 ) algorithms from the economics of transportation and optimal routing, with maximum likelihood estimation, and closed form algebraic calculations, as iterative solution search techniques were limited in the days before computers.
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In particular, the Rasch model forms a basis for maximum likelihood estimation of the locations of objects or persons on a continuum, based on collections of categorical data, for example the abilities of persons on a continuum based on responses that have been categorized as correct and incorrect.
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More generally however, when maximum likelihood estimation does not coincide with minimum chi-squared estimation, the distribution will lie somewhere between a chi-squared distribution with n-1-p and n-1 degrees of freedom ( See for instance Chernoff and Lehmann, 1954 ).
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They are typically determined by some sort of optimization procedure, e . g . maximum likelihood estimation, that finds values that best fit the observed data ( i . e . that give the most accurate predictions for the data already observed ), usually subject to L-BFGS method.
