Nicola S. Clayton

Nicola S. Clayton

Nicola Clayton is Professor of Comparative Cognition in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Clare College. Nicky studies the development and evolution of cognition, and the questions she address are informed by an understanding of biology and psychology. Her work has challenged many of the common-held assumptions that only humans can plan fo...

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Maximum Likelihood Estimation ∗ Clayton

This module introduces the maximum likelihood estimator. We show how the MLE implements the likelihood principle. Methods for computing th MLE are covered. Properties of the MLE are discussed including asymptotic e ciency and invariance under reparameterization. The maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) is an alternative to the minimum variance unbiased estimator (MVUE). For many estimation proble...

Clayton et al. respond.

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