The AstroStat Slog » maximum likelihood test http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:05:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 my first AAS. II. maximum likelihood test http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/first-aas-ml-test/ http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/first-aas-ml-test/#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:02:23 +0000 hlee http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/?p=331 What is the maximum likelihood test in astronomy?

I saw a poster that said their result excels because they used the maximum likelihood test (hereafter, MLT) for a contour plot. At least this was my understanding after casual reading of the poster whilst I was focusing in finding the definition of the MLT. My guess was they obtained estimaties from maximum likelihood principles, such as using Cash statistics in X-ray data analysis.

It was interesting to see a dialect that gave me hard time to associate with the original meanings.

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