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- From: thompson@atlas.socsci.umn.edu (T. Scott Thompson)
- Subject: Re: linear covariance estimate for max likelihood
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- Keywords: parameter estimation, maximum likelihood, covariance estimate
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- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:22:13 GMT
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- juber@uceng.UC.EDU (james uber) writes:
-
- >I obtain parameter estimates via maximum likelihood where
- >my model is in the standard reduced form y = f(p), y are the
- >data and p are the parameters. I assume that the distribution
- >of the model + measurement errors is normal with zero mean
- >and known covariance matrix Ve. Thus i am solving the optimization
- >problem:
-
- > min Tr(y - f(p))Inv(Ve)(y - f(p))
- > p
-
- [rest of post deleted]
-
- I do not understand the question. If y = f(p) (where f is presumably
- a known and fixed function of the parameters) and y is observed then
- there is no measurement error. Perhaps you meant y = f(p) + e where e
- is a vector of measurement errors. (This seems implicit in your
- description of the nonlinear least squares procedure.)
-
- But you also refer to "model errors". What are these and how do they
- fit in? If the model is really
-
- y = f(p) + <error>
-
- and f(p) is known (up to the parameters p) and fixed, then
- Var(y) = Var(<error>) regardless of the source of the errors.
-
- Please clarify.
-