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Expected Value of MLE estimate over standard deviation and expected deviation

A slecture by ECE student Zhenpeng Zhao

Partly based on the ECE662 Spring 2014 lecture material of Prof. Mireille Boutin.




1. Motivation

  • Most likely converge as number of number of training sample increase.
  • Simpler than alternate methods such as Bayesian technique.



2. Motivation

  • Statistical Density Theory Context
    • Given c classes + some knowledge about features $ x \in \mathbb{R}^n $ (or some other space)
    • Given training data, $ x_j\sim\rho(x)=\sum\limits_{i=1}^n\rho(x|w_i) Prob(w_i) $, unknown class $ w_{ij} $ for $ x_j $ is know, $ \forall{j}=1,...,N $ (N hopefully large enough)
    • In order to make decision, we need to estimate $ \rho(x|w_i) $, $ Prob(w_i) $ $ \rightarrow $ use Bayes rule, or $ \rho(x|w_i) $ $ \rightarrow $ use Neyman-Pearson Criterion
    • To estimate the above two, use training data.
  • The parametric pdf|Prob estimation problem
    • Let $ D={x_1,x_2,...,x_N} $, $ x_j $ is drown independently from some probability law.
    • Choose parametric from $ \rho(x|\theta) $ for the pdf of x or $ Prob(x|\theta) $ for the probability of x $ \rightarrow $ an unknown parametric vector
    • Use $ D $ to estimate $ \theta $
  • The maximum likelihood estimate of $ \theta $ is the value $ \hat{\theta} $ that maximize $ \rho_D(D|\theta) $, if x is continuous R.V., or $ Prob(D|\theta) $, if x is discrete R.V.
  • Observation


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